Japan passes another verdict over bribery case during Olympics

Tokyo has passed a guilty verdict against a former high-ranking employee of the Kadokawa publishing house, who was found guilty of bribing a member of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics, Report informs referring to Kyodo.

As it turned out, the goal of the publisher’s employee was to obtain advertising contracts for personal gain.

Maniwa Koji, 63, who served as the company’s head of communications with the organizing committee of the Olympics, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years.