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Tokyo 2020 consultancy firm linked with questionable payment to Papa Massata Diack

Consultancy firm Black Tidings reportedly transferred US $370,000 to Papa Massata Diack around the time Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games. According to Kyodo News, documents show payments from the Singapore-based company to a firm owned by the Senegalese.

Payments worth US $2 million made to Black Tidings are the subject of investigations by French authorities in relation to alleged vote buying in connection with the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic bid race.

The payments were made before Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Buenos Aires in 2013.

The holder of the Black Tidings account has been linked to Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack, former president of athletics’ world governing body.

Documents reportedly show Black Tidings transferred the $370,000 to Papa Massata Diack's personal account and to his company, PMD Consulting Sarl. Payments were made from August 2013 to January 2014.

Papa Massata Diack told Kyodo News that the money received was related to a "sponsorship deal made in China" and had "nothing to do with the Tokyo Olympics".

The findings came after analysis of leaked reports of suspicious financial activity, which have been kept by the United States Treasury Department and French authorities.

Lamine and Papa Massata Diack are at the centre of a corruption probe relating to the bid process for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, due to the payments made to Black Tidings. Both of the Diacks deny wrongdoing.

 

 



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