Tokyo prosecutors search Dentsu, suspect bid-rigging on Olympics test events -media - Reuters

TOKYO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors searched advertizing bureau Dentsu (4324.T) and different firms successful transportation with imaginable bid-rigging for Tokyo Olympics trial events, nationalist broadcaster NHK and different home media reported connected Friday.

The determination marks a widening of a corruption ungraded that has centred connected Olympic sponsors and a erstwhile subordinate of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board.

Tokyo prosecutors and Japan's Fair Trade Commission fishy that Dentsu whitethorn person colluded with different firms implicit the bidding for Olympic trial events, which could represent a usurpation of anti-monopoly laws, media said.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Japan Fair Trade Commission declined to comment. A Dentsu typical said they were making checks connected the reports.

In August, Tokyo prosecutors arrested a erstwhile subordinate of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board, Haruyuki Takahashi, connected suspicion of receiving bribes.

Reporting by Elaine Lies, Sakura Murakami and Daniel Leussink; Editing by Tom Hogue and Edwina Gibbs

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