Dentsu Joint Venture Selected for Expo Business Under Investigation in Olympic Bid-rigging, Criticized by Prefectural Assembly | | Nationwide News
Olympic rigging investigation underway, criticized in prefectural assembly
The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, which manages the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, has selected a joint venture (JV) consisting of major advertising company Dentsu and other companies as a candidate for a license agreement for the official character Myakumyaku. I found out. The association made the announcement at the Osaka Prefectural Assembly on the 5th. Dentsu has been raided by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office and others in a bid-rigging case involving the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and the assembly has criticized it.
At the Prefectural Assembly Expo Promotion Special Committee Council, the association explained that it would not allow bidders to participate in bids if they were suspended from nominations by the prefectural government. At the moment, no disciplinary action has been taken, and he indicated that there is no problem with the selection as a business operator.
