The report comes amid French investigations into the former head of Tokyo's bid committee, Tsunekazu Takeda, for approving around $2 million in payments to Black Tidings, a now-defunct consulting firm in Singapore. Black Tidings made multiple transfers to Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, including some paid into a personal account and others transferred to his company, the report said. Papa Massata Diack told Kyodo that the payments were not related to the Tokyo Olympics. The Kyodo report said he denied any knowledge of money transfers from Black Tidings. "At the time, I did not know anything that happened after (making the payment to the consulting firm)," he said.

Source: Standard Digital September 21, 2020 07:18 UTC