五輪談合、博報堂など捜索　テスト大会で受注調整疑い―東京地検・公取委

　東京五輪・パラリンピックのテスト大会を巡る入札談合事件で、東京地検特捜部と公正取引委員会は２８日、大会組織委員会発注の計画立案業務で受注調整したとして、独禁法違反（不当な取引制限）容疑で、広告大手「博報堂」（東京都港区）など４社を家宅捜索した。
　２５日の広告最大手「電通」、イベント大手「セレスポ」に続く捜索。電通を中心に受注調整が行われた疑いがあり、特捜部と公取委が全容解明を進める。
　他に捜索を受けたのは広告大手「東急エージェンシー」（港区）、イベント会社「セイムトゥー」（千代田区）、同「フジクリエイティブコーポレーション」（ＦＣＣ、江東区）。
　関係者によると、談合の疑いが持たれているのは、組織委が２０１８年５～８月に発注したテスト大会の「計画立案・計画支援業務委託」。２６件の競争入札が行われ、電通など９社と一つの共同企業体（ＪＶ）が計５億円余りで落札した。（2022/11/28-13:16）

Japanese prosecutors and antitrust officials raided major advertising agency Hakuhodo Inc. and other firms on Monday for their possible involvement in suspected bid-rigging for contracts related to test events for last year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
   Investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special squad and the Fair Trade Commission jointly searched locations related to Hakuhodo, another ad agency Tokyu Agency Inc. and event companies Same Two Inc. and Fuji Creative Corp. on suspicion of violating the antimonopoly law. All four firms are based in Tokyo.
   The prosecutors office and the FTC suspect that the companies prearranged winners in bidding for planning and planning assistance services for the test events, ordered by the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee in May-August 2018. The authorities last week raided leading ad agency Dentsu Inc. and event company Cerespo Co. over the alleged bid-rigging, which they suspect was led by Dentsu.
   During the period, bidding took place for 26 such orders, which were won by nine companies including Dentsu and a business consortium for a total of over 500 million yen.
   Hakuhodo and Same Two each won orders for two test event venues, and Tokyu Agency three venues. Fuji Creative won orders for two venues itself and one venue through a consortium with Cerespo.