The Board of Audit points out, overbilling and inadequacies of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in the corona-related business of the former Dentsu Tech Two months after the announcement, Asahi reports
According to the "Financial Results Inspection Report for the Fifth Fiscal Year of Reiwa" released by the Board of Auditors, it was revealed that the 100% subsidiary of the "Dentsu Group" "Dentsu Tec" (currently Dentsu Promotion Plus) overcharged approximately 110 million yen in relation to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Medical Institution Information Support System (G-MIS)" business, which was operated as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus.
| The financial results inspection report for the fifth year of Reiwa was submitted by the Board of Audit to Prime Minister Ishiba on November 6, 2024, and was also published on the official website of the Board of Audit (a person in charge of the Board of Audit). However, about two months later, on January 20, 2025, the Asahi Shimbun suddenly overbilled Dentsu Tech. Reported Was. Later, the Chunichi Shimbun also reported. On the other hand, the Asahi Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun reported that there was no particular change from the information at the time of publication in November last year. Good Travel News Newsletter explains a different background. |
The G-MIS project, commissioned by Dentsu Tec, is a system built to centralize and share information on the operating status and hospital beds of medical institutions with local governments. Dentsu Tec In May 2020, the company was entrusted with call center operations by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under a voluntary contract, and was established as the "Dentsu Customer Access Center" (currently Dentsu Promotion Exe and then re-commissioned, and a hollow-out structure unique to the Dentsu Group was constructed. In addition, in the case of re-entrustment, the obligation to report to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare was not fulfilled.
In this business process, a claim was made that included labor costs for an unsubstantiated number of people. In addition, it has been found that the cost of about 13,000 licenses, which were recorded as license procurement costs, was not actually purchased.
In addition, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare made the payment without fully checking the contents of the invoice submitted by Dentsu Tech. As a result, more than 860 million yen was paid, significantly exceeding the original payment amount of approximately 750 million yen, and the difference of about 110 million yen was overpaid.
In 2020, the Service Design Promotion Council, which was established under the leadership of Dentsu in the sustainability benefit business, became the main contractor, and subsequently became the main contractor for the Dentsu Group companies and major staffing companies. Pasona In addition, it was pointed out that about 500 subcontractors are involved. In 2023, in the Hokkaido Government's new corona-related work, " Dentsu Hokkaido It has been discovered that Dentsu Promotion Exe, which also appeared this time, was overcharging about 160 million yen.
In response to past fraudulent claims and bid-rigging scandals at the Tokyo Olympics, the Dentsu Group formulated its Corporate Governance Policy in March 2023 and published new procurement guidelines for corporate transactions, but this time, inappropriate transactions in 2020 came to light.
On January 20, 2025, the editorial department of Yoi Tabi News sent an email to the person in charge of the Dentsu Group's Public Relations Department asking questions about the possibility of similar fraudulent incidents occurring in the group companies in the future. If there are any answers in the future, we will introduce them.
