London in the frame to host 2020 Olympics as Japan bid probed over secret payments

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London in the frame to host 2020 Olympics as Japan bid probed over secret payments

 

 

• French financial prosecutor has launched an inquiry into two payments
• Japanese bank account called 'Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid' probed
• If Tokyo were stripped of the Games it could be handed back to London 
• Capital boasts enough venues to host another Olympics at short notice

 

The head of the Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid that lost out to Tokyo has said that the 2020 Games may have to be staged in London if a French criminal investigation concludes that the Japanese made illegal payments to the company at the centre of the athletics corruption scandal.

On Thursday the French financial prosecutor confirmed that they have launched an inquiry into two payments from a Japanese bank account called ‘Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid’ to the Singapore-based Black Tidings company already suspected by French financial investigators of laundering money extorted from drug cheats in athletics.

Sportsmail revealed that the two payments were made either side of the 2020 Games vote in Buenos Aires in 2013 into the company that has direct links to Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack and someone who along with his father is also now the subject of a criminal investigation by the French authorities.

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