13-05-2016 12:20 via news.yahoo.com

Tokyo 2020 payments were 'legitimate' - Japan Olympic chief

Japan's Olympic chief said Friday that payments reported by British media raising questions over alleged corruption by Tokyo's 2020 Games bid were "legitimate". Tsunekazu Takeda, the former head of Tokyo's successful bid committee, said reports of clandestine payments were unfounded, describing them as a "legitimate consultant's fee". Japan said Friday it would question officials involved in Tokyo's 2020 Olympics bid over the multi-million dollar payment, which is being probed by French investig
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