>Shinichi Ueno, a former president of advertising agency ADK Holdings Inc., admitted to Olympic-related bribery charges during the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 17.
>Ueno, 69, is accused of bribing a Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive to secure a deal to handle contracts of Tokyo Olympic Games’ sponsorships.
>He told the court the allegations “are true.”
>According to the indictment, Ueno colluded in the bribery scheme with two subordinates at ADK–a former managing director and former manager of the company’s department in charge of the Olympic-related issues.
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>Between April 2014 and March 2018, Ueno asked Haruyuki Takahashi, then an executive of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, to help ADK be selected as one of Dentsu Inc.’s “sales cooperation agencies.”
>That designation would allow ADK to win a deal to handle corporate sponsorship contracts for the Games.
>Ueno then paid a total of 14.85 million yen ($110,000) to a consulting company called Commons, which was run by Takahashi, from November 2019 to January 2022, according to the indictment.
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Excerpt from the linked content:^1
>Shinichi Ueno, a former president of advertising agency ADK Holdings Inc., admitted to Olympic-related bribery charges during the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 17.
>Ueno, 69, is accused of bribing a Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive to secure a deal to handle contracts of Tokyo Olympic Games’ sponsorships.
>He told the court the allegations “are true.”
>According to the indictment, Ueno colluded in the bribery scheme with two subordinates at ADK–a former managing director and former manager of the company’s department in charge of the Olympic-related issues.
>
>Between April 2014 and March 2018, Ueno asked Haruyuki Takahashi, then an executive of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, to help ADK be selected as one of Dentsu Inc.’s “sales cooperation agencies.”
>That designation would allow ADK to win a deal to handle corporate sponsorship contracts for the Games.
>Ueno then paid a total of 14.85 million yen ($110,000) to a consulting company called Commons, which was run by Takahashi, from November 2019 to January 2022, according to the indictment.
^1 *Former ADK chief admits to bribing Tokyo Olympic official*, The Asahi Shimbun, 17 Feb. 2023 13:47 JST, https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14841807
I smell a suspended sentence… if they are really tough on him perhaps his name will be written down in the naughty book too…