ＫＡＤＯＫＡＷＡ会長を逮捕　組織委元理事への贈賄容疑―五輪汚職・東京地検

　東京五輪・パラリンピックのスポンサー選定をめぐる汚職事件で、東京地検特捜部は１４日、大会組織委員会元理事の高橋治之容疑者（７８）＝受託収賄容疑で再逮捕＝に対する贈賄容疑で、出版大手ＫＡＤＯＫＡＷＡ会長、角川歴彦容疑者（７９）を新たに逮捕した。
　事件は同社創業家の経営トップが逮捕される事態に発展した。角川容疑者は五輪事業参入に向けて贈賄工作を主導した疑いがあり、特捜部が全容解明を進める。
　逮捕容疑は、同社元専務の芳原世幸（６４）、元担当室長の馬庭教二（６３）両容疑者＝いずれも贈賄容疑で逮捕＝と共謀して大会スポンサーに選ばれるよう高橋容疑者に依頼し、謝礼として２０１９年９月～２１年１月に高橋容疑者の知人の深見和政容疑者（７３）＝受託収賄容疑で逮捕＝が社長を務めるコンサルタント会社「コモンズ２」に計約６９００万円を支払った疑い。
　コモンズ２には１９年７月以降、コンサル料名目で計約７６００万円が支払われたが、うち約７００万円分は贈賄罪の公訴時効（３年）が経過している。（2022/09/14-19:51）

Public prosecutors arrested on Wednesday the chairman of Japanese publisher Kadokawa Corp. over a bribery case involving sponsor selection for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
   Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, 79, was arrested on suspicion of bribe-giving.
   The special squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office suspects that the Kadokawa chairman was connected with the bribery case involving Haruyuki Takahashi, a 78-year-old former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive who was served a fresh warrant for allegedly receiving bribes.
   Working together with Toshiyuki Yoshihara, a 64-year-old former senior managing director at Kadokawa, and Kyoji Maniwa, a 63-year-old former Kadokawa executive in charge of Tokyo Games-related business, the Kadokawa chairman allegedly asked Takahashi to help the publisher become a Tokyo Games sponsor. Both Yoshihara and Maniwa have been arrested on suspicion of bribe-giving.
   Tsuguhiko Kadokawa is suspected of paying, in collusion with the two former Kadokawa executives, fees totaling around 69 million yen to a consulting company headed by Kazumasa Fukami, a 73-year-old acquaintance of Takahashi, between September 2019 and January 2021. Fukami has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes.