Inquiry says $2 million payment fuels Tokyo Olympics suspicions
French investigators said on Thursday they suspect that $2 million paid to a son of disgraced athletics supremo Lamine Diack was to get support for Tokyo's 2020 Olympics bid. Some 2.8 million Singapore dollars (1.8 million euros, $2 million) paid to a company owned by Papa Missata Diack is at the centre of the suspicions, prosecutors said in a statement. Diack father and son already face corruption charges in France.
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