An executive of the now-defunct Tokyo Olympic organizing committee was arrested by prosecutors Wednesday on suspicion of receiving bribes from major business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc.

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former senior managing director of Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu Inc., is known as a powerful figure in sports circles.

In addition to Takahashi, the prosecutors arrested Hironori Aoki, a former chairman of the retailer, and two other people in connection with the case unfolding about a year after the Tokyo Olympics.

==Kyodo

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