mo4ch:>France investigates Japanese Olympic Committee president over 2020 bid corruption – reports | Mo4ch News

Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of Japan’s Olympic Committee, is under investigation on corruption charges in France. He was questioned the same day as Japan charged Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn with financial misconduct.Takeda is suspected of corruption in the 2013 vote that won Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Olympics. His clandestine negotiations with African members of the International Olympic Committee allegedly helped Japan secure the victory, according to the French paper Le Monde, who first reported on Takeda’s case.While Le Monde initially reported Takeda had been indicted, Takeda himself has denied it in a statement. He said he had taken “no improper action” in connection with the 2020 bid, and promised to cooperate with the investigation. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has opened its own ethics probe into Takeda.Takeda, a 71-year-old former Olympic equestrian and great-grandson of Emperor Meiji, was questioned in France in December after a three-year long investigat…