Corporate bribery
A building which houses the headquarters of major advertising company Dentsu is pictured in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Japanese prosecutors raided the headquarters of Dentsu Friday, as the investigation into corruption related to the Tokyo Olympics widened. (Kyodo News via AP)
Japan investigators raid Dentsu in widening Olympic probe

By Yuri Kageyama Nov. 25, 2022 12:18 AM EST

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)
Bribes scandal continues to sully Tokyo Olympic legacy

By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade Oct. 19, 2022 01:08 AM EDT

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)
Publishing executive charged in Tokyo Olympic bribes scandal

By Yuri Kageyama Oct. 04, 2022 03:34 AM EDT

FILE - Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attends the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Criminal allegations against a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member widened Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Takahashi in suspected payments from a publisher that became a sponsor for the Games. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympics bribery arrests widens to third Japan sponsor

By Yuri Kageyama Sep. 27, 2022 04:30 AM EDT

FILE - Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attends the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Criminal allegations against a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member widened Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Takahashi in suspected payments from a publisher that became a sponsor for the Games. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympics sponsorship scandal widens with more arrests

By Yuri Kageyama Sep. 06, 2022 04:28 AM EDT

FILE - Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games arrives at Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Japanese prosecutors arrested Takahashi and three employees of a clothing company on bribery charges Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Japan makes arrests on bribery suspicions in Tokyo Olympics

By Yuri Kageyama Aug. 17, 2022 03:40 AM EDT

FILE — In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia speaks to the media after leaving federal court in Boston. Correia heads to trial in federal court in April 2021 on charges that he stole more than $230,000 from investors in a smartphone app he created to pay for things like a Mercedes, casino trips and adult entertainment. As mayor, he's accused of convincing his chief of staff to give him half of her salary in order to keep her city job and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses seeking to operate there. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP)
Wunderkind ex-mayor to face jurors in fraud, bribery case

By Alanna Durkin Richer Apr. 18, 2021 07:58 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 5, 2011, file photo, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, right, meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, left, and Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in Durban, South Africa, ahead the opening ceremony for the 123rd IOC session that would decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. Lee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died, a Samsung statement said Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. He was 78. (AP Photo/Rajesh Jantilal-Pool, Pool, File)
Lee Kun-Hee, force behind Samsung’s rise, dies at 78

By Kim Tong-Hyung And Hyung-Jin Kim Oct. 25, 2020 07:57 AM EDT

After 'Fishrot' scandal, Namibia earns little from auction

By Sonja Smith Oct. 01, 2020 01:55 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Following Namibia's “Fishrot” scandal, in which two Cabinet ministers are in jail awaiting trial for allegedly accepting bribes for...

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2012, file photo, Chinese real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang poses for photos in his office in Beijing. Ren, former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and will be prosecuted on corruption charges, the party announced Friday, July 24, 2020. (Color China Photo via AP)
Critic of Chinese leader expelled from party on graft charge

Jul. 23, 2020 11:30 PM EDT

Ex-CEO, citing virus, seeks home sentence in college scam

Apr. 24, 2020 04:09 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The former CEO of a top investment company who got nine months in prison in the college admissions bribery scheme asked a judge if he could begin...