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Money trail ties Tokyo Olympic bid consultant to kin of IOC member
Documents reviewed by an international media consortium have pieced together the flow of money from a consultant of the Tokyo Olympic bid committee to the son of an influential member of the International Olympic Committee.
U.S. bank and French criminal investigation records show that about $370,000 (about 37 million yen) was transferred from the bank account of a Singapore consulting firm hired by the bid committee to help its efforts to bring the Summer Olympics to the Japanese capital in 2020. The money was sent by Black Tidings Co. around the time of the September 2013 IOC meeting that decided on Tokyo as the 2020 host city and went to the bank accounts of Papa Massata Diack, 55, and his company. He is the son of Lamine Diack, who was then a voting member of the IOC as well as president of the International Association of Athletics Federations. Four years ago, questions were raised in the Japanese Diet about the $2,325,000 that the bid committee paid Black Tidings, but it was never made clear how Black Tidings spent that money. The FinCEN Files, a 16-month-long investigation of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), BuzzFeed News, Kyodo News, Radio France, The Asahi Shimbun and 105 other media partners, is based on top-secret bank reports filed with the U.S. Treasury Department’s intelligence unit, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), other documents and dozens of interviews. Among the documents analyzed are the Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) that financial institutions submit to FinCEN.
During the course of the investigation, a reporter for an ICIJ partner, the French public broadcasting service Radio France, saw sealed documents from the French criminal investigation and shared a portion of the contents of them with partners of the ICIJ, including The Asahi Shimbun.Those documents included information about bank accounts held by Black Tidings. According to those documents, one account of Black Tidings was opened in June 2011 with the Singapore branch of Standard Chartered Bank by Tong Han Tan, a close associate of Papa Massata Diack. However, the Standard Chartered Bank account of this company barely recorded any activity since its opening in June 2011 until June 2013. But two money transfers were made to the account on dates sandwiching Sept. 7, when the IOC meeting was held to choose Tokyo as the 2020 Olympic host city. On July 29, $950,000 was transferred from the account of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Bid Committee held with Mizuho Bank Ltd., while another $1,375,000 was transferred from the same account on Oct. 25.
According to the SAR submitted by Standard Chartered Bank to FinCEN and shared with French investigators, on Aug. 27 and Nov. 6, a total of $35,000 was transferred from the Black Tidings account to the personal account of Papa Massata Diack at a Russian bank. According to the investigative document, more than $150,000 was eventually transferred to the Russian bank account by Jan. 27, 2014, from the Black Tidings account. Money was also transferred to a Senegal account of PMD Consulting SARL, a company affiliated with Diack. PMD Consulting received four round-dollar transactions totaling $217,000 from Black Tidings, which occurred from Nov. 6, 2013, until Dec. 18, 2013. The investigative document also showed that the account finally debited on Nov. 8, 2013, with a transfer of 85,000 euros ($114,522, or 11 million yen) to Elysees Shopping for watches and other luxury items acquired by Papa Massata Diack from the Elysees Shopping store in Paris on July 16 and 25, 2013.
The SAR submitted with FinCEN also showed that $95,000 was transferred to a car dealership located in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Oct. 29, 2013. The remittance reference field for the transaction states “REF: PAPA DIACK.”
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