Documents On Tokyo Games Shown To Public, But None Related To Bribery Scandal
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has made publicly available many documents on the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at a local library. But materials related to a sponsorship bribery scandal are not included.
The official documents from the Games' organizing committee were released at a Tokyo library on Tuesday.
The roughly 4,000 documents include public notices on various events and media releases on the selection of mascot characters and other news. There are also minutes of the committee's board and council meetings.
The Metropolitan Government has been entrusted by the Japanese Olympic Committee to keep the materials to convey the Games' historical and social significance.
People are allowed to read or print the documents, which are stored on DVDs.
The materials do not include sponsorship contracts, documents showing sponsorship fees, or anything that may be related to the recent scandal.
A former executive of the organizing committee, Takahashi Haruyuki, was served a fourth arrest warrant earlier this month in a string of alleged bribery cases over sponsorship deals. He denies receiving bribes worth about 1.3 million dollars.
An archive official at the Tokyo government, Maehara Atsushi, says some documents such as contracts are not suitable for disclosure as they include corporate information. But he explained Tokyo officials coordinated with the International Olympic Committee and the organizing committee to release as many materials as possible.