IOC President Thomas Bach has defended the actions of the International Olympic Committee in the corruption affair surrounding Rio’s Ok boss Carlos Arthur Nuzman:”We did what we could do,”said the 63-year-old at the beginning of the IOC summit in Lima, Peru.
Bach explained that lawyers for the IOC’s Ethics Committee had contacted the Brazilian authorities to obtain further information on the case and said:”As soon as there is evidence, we will act,”said the deaf-bishop of Tauberbischofsheim.
Reports that the IOC had received evidence of Nuzman’s improper behavior from a former Brazilian official earlier in the day, Bach rejected:”If there had been any evidence, we would have pursued it,”Bach said.
The Brazilian federal police had seized evidence in the house of Nuzman and at the headquarters of Comitê Rio 2016 on suspicion of buying votes before the Olympic Games were awarded to Rio in 2016.Nuzman, also President of the National Olympic Committee, was summoned for questioning.
Operation Unfair Play is based on information provided by the French judicial authorities.According to the report, IOC members with voting rights were alleged to have received bribes prior to Rio’s election in October 2009.
No organization in the world is immune, no law is so perfect that it cannot be broken,”said the fencing Olympic champion of 1976.