The former governor of Rio Cabral was also sentenced. He confessed how the city managed to beat Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid for the 2016 Olympics: buying six and subsequently three votes from IOC members
An absolute world record for Carlos Arthur Nuzman: 31 years in prison for the over twenty-year-old president of the Brazilian Olympic committee and president of the organizing committee of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games. Crimes: having run a criminal organization, laundered money, evaded the tax authorities, bribed.
Sergio Cabral, former governor of Rio de Janeiro (who is already in jail), Leonardo Gayner, at the time head of the Olympic operations, and businessman Arthur Soares were also sentenced. Legacy, inheritance, is one of the words widely used by the International Olympic Committee. There is no reason to be proud of the Brazilian one.
It would be nice to have planted a bug in the IOC headquarters in Lausanne and to hear the comments on what has just happened: many rotten avocados and pineapples in a large basket, no doubt. Trusting that Judge Marcelo Bretas will stop there. And that’s not necessarily the case.
Cabral confessed how Rio managed to beat Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid that he had yet another good nomination: buying six and subsequently three votes from members of the IOC, paying first 2 million and then 500,000 dollars to the mirrored firm Diack and son (Lamine and Papa Masata) already very active – and well paid – in the scandal of the Russian doping coverage. In France, the former president of the IAAF, in office from 1999 to 2013, had a four-year sentence (two of which were suspended), the enterprising Pope five. Bretas will send the results and conclusions he has reached to the Dakar and Paris prosecutors, where the two reside.
The investigation was born thanks to a Le Monde investigation, dating back to 2017 and linked to the buying and selling of votes which, in the IOC session held in Copenhagen in 2009, led to the victory in Rio.
We still have to regret the times when, on the occasion of summits, meetings, seminars, visits to plants, dignitaries, housed in multi-star hotels, were honored with gifts that some thought embarrassing, others not. The level has gradually risen (payment for children’s studies, free land, etc.) until the Salt Lake City scandal which led to radical changes, suspensions, radiation. A transparency that quickly became opaque.
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