Tokyo Olympic organisers have denied any knowledge of a £1m payment allegedly made during their bid to win the 2020 Games.
The Guardian newspaper reported that the Tokyo bid team “or those acting on their behalf” paid the money into a Singapore bank account.
The paper claimed the account was linked to Papa Massata Diack, the son of disgraced former IAAF president Lamine Diack.
French prosecutors confirmed in March they had widened their investigation into corruption at the IAAF to include Olympic bidding for the 2016 and 2020 Games.
Tokyo 2020 spokesperson Hikariko Ono said in a statement that the committee “has no means of knowing these allegations. We believe that the Games were awarded to Tokyo because the city presented the best bid.”
Lamine Diack resigned as an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee last year.
He is under investigation by French authorities on charges of corruption and money-laundering related to the cover-up of Russian doping cases.
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Olympic 2020: Tokyo Deny Payment Allegations
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