With the in-depth investigation of the bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games, the bribery and corruption problems involving the Olympic Games have once again aroused high attention-the Olympic Games corruption haze is difficult to go

it has been more than a year since the closing of the Tokyo Olympic Games, however, this Olympic Games continues to attract attention in another way-recently, there have been new developments in the investigation of the bribery case of Takahashi, a former member of the executive committee of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, ADK, a Japanese advertising giant, is suspected of becoming an outsourcing enterprise of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee with the help of Takahashi and making illegal profits. At the same time, Japanese prosecutors also summoned Mori Yoshiro, the former chairman of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.

The bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games is just a microcosm of frequent corruption scandals in international sports in recent years. In fact, corruption events involving the Olympic Games are not an example. Although the International Olympic Committee and relevant sports organizations have set up specialized agencies and issued a series of prevention and control measures, the corruption haze surrounding the Olympic Games has been struggling.

The bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games continues to ferment

“this is very regrettable, I can only apologize (to everyone)”. This is the former chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee (disbanded), Yamako Hashimoto, who made a statement on the bribery case of the Tokyo Olympic Games under investigation when interviewed by Japanese media a few days ago.

The preparatory process for the Tokyo Olympic Games can be described as ups and downs. As early as 2019, the former president of the Japanese Olympic Committee Takeda Henghe was forced to resign because he was suspected of bribing members of the International Olympic Committee in the bid.

This round of investigation on bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games focuses on Takahashi, a former member of the executive committee of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. In July this year, several Japanese media reported at the same time that Takahashi was caught in a corruption scandal. After investigation by Tokyo prosecutors, Takahashi was arrested by Tokyo local procuratorial organs on August this year for allegedly collecting bribes of up to 51 million yen from Japanese men’s clothing giant AOKI.

With the continuous deepening of the investigation, more and more celebrities in Japanese politics and business circles are involved in this corruption cases investigation. So far, in addition to AOKI, the companies suspected of corruption cases of the Tokyo Olympic Games include Japanese publishing house giant jiao chuan (KADOKAWA), two advertising companies ADK and Daiko (Daiko), and COMMONS2, a well-known Japanese consulting company “.

As the investigation went on, many people, including AOKI’s former chairman, AOKI’s chairman, AOKI’s chairman, jiao chuan Liyan, and the senior representative of “COMMONS2”, were arrested. It is not excluded that more well-known Japanese companies and former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executives will be involved.

The Corruption incident related to the Olympics is not an example

while the bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games continues to ferment, the British “times” has also released heavy news recently, through the International Boxing Association, jin Hao, a former senior official of Taekwondo Association, exposed the “Olympic corruption scandal”. According to the report, Jin Hao revealed that the International Taekwondo Association had used bribery to ensure that Taekwondo projects entered the Olympic Games. He also accused the International Olympic Committee of supporting specific candidates to be elected president of the International Boxing Federation by accepting bribes.

In this regard, the International Olympic Committee issued a special statement questioning Jin Hao’s statement and confirmed that the MINGHAN officials of nationality had never contacted the IOC ethics committee or the anti-corruption supervision hotline about his accusation. In addition, the International Taekwondo Association and the International Boxing Federation also gave a harsh response to this.

The authenticity of the explosion and the trend of the incident need further observation. However, corruption charges or scandals involving the Olympic Games do not stop there.

As early as 1995, Salt Lake City in the United States broke out the bribery scandal that shocked the world. At that time, Salt Lake City just won the 19th Winter hosting of the Olympic Games in 2002. However, the American media later revealed that the Salt Lake City Olympic bid committee had bribery. The investigation after the incident showed that Salt Lake City had bribed up to 1 million dollars to several IOC members and their families before the bid.

In 2004, in a year-long interview, BBC pointed out that many members of the International Olympic Committee participated in the illegal transaction of bidding for the 2012 London Olympics. Slavkov, a member of the International Olympic Committee of Bulgaria, was subsequently suspended by the International Olympic Committee.

In 2017, Sergio Cabral, the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, admitted that he had participated in bribery during the Rio Olympic bid, with a bribe amount of up to 2 million US dollars, the number of IOC members suspected of accepting bribes is as high as 9……

There is still a long way to go to eliminate “Olympic corruption”

in the face of the continuous Olympic corruption scandal, the reputation of the International Olympic Committee has been greatly affected, A series of measures have also been formulated and introduced to avoid the occurrence of similar incidents. However, facing the huge commercial interests contained in the modern Olympic Games, it is bound to be a long-term and arduous struggle to completely eliminate corruption.

As early as the scandal of bribery election in Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was exposed, Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee, introduced a series of reform measures-setting up an investigation team and holding an interim committee to deal with the members involved, and amend the charter to set up “ethics committee” and so on. After Roger was elected as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee in July 2001, he also took the fight against corruption as one of the important tasks of the International Olympic Committee. In September, 2013, after Thomas Bach became the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee, he led the launch of the Olympic 2020 agenda. The governance of corruption is one of the important reform contents.

However, in the face of a series of high-pressure punches, corruption incidents involving the Olympic Games still occur from time to time, highlighting that the International Olympic Committee and relevant sports organizations still have loopholes in preventing corruption.

Shankou Xiangshan, a former director of Japan’s Olympic organizing committee and professor of Tsukuba University, said in response to the bribery case of Tokyo Olympic Games: “People who are beneficial to sponsoring enterprises become directors, which shows that the audit system of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is not perfect. The government and the Japanese Olympic Committee should find out the reasons as soon as possible and take specific measures to strengthen the examination to prevent similar incidents from happening again.”

As for how to further strengthen anti-corruption work in the international sports arena including the Olympic Games, the chief ethics and compliance officer of the International Olympic Committee, parquilet Girard zapelli, said in an interview earlier: “Our goal is to find ways to solve the problem of sports corruption more effectively, including the preparation of large-scale international sports events and the practice examples of managing conflicts of interest of sports organizations, as well as the relevant standards and laws to solve the bribery problem in the sports field.” (Li Yuanhao)