Olympics: Awarding 2016: Nuzman accused in corruption scandal

Carlos Arthur Nuzman, former President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee COB, was formally charged with the corruption scandal surrounding the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.

In addition to money laundering and violations of foreign exchange regulations, he is also accused of belonging to a criminal organisation.Nuzman is said to have bought votes for the Olympic award to the Brazilian metropolis.

The Senegalese Lamine Diack, former president of the IAAF and his son Papa Massata Diack are also accused.The investigation focuses on the payment of at least two million dollars to Papa Massata Diack.Before the Olympic Games were awarded in 2009, he allegedly drew additional voters from Africa to Rio’s side with the money.

Sergio Cabral, at that time prime minister of the state of Rio, Brazilian entrepreneur Arthur Soares and Nuzman’s right-hand man Leonardo Gryner were also indicted.

Cabral is already in prison.He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery.Soares, whose offshore account was used to pay Diack, is currently on the run.

Nuzman was on the 5th.The Brazilian authorities arrested the Brazilian authorities on 1 October.A day later, the IOC suspended the 75-year-old.