Sport policy: Rio scandal: former Olympic boss Nuzman at large

Brazil’s former Olympic boss Carlos Arthur Nuzman is back on the loose under certain conditions. After 15 days in prison, he left Rio de Janeiro on Friday at 4.30 pm local time.

The 75-year-old is accused of buying votes from IOC members for Rio’s election as Olympic host. Officially, he is charged with money laundering, foreign exchange offences and membership of a criminal organisation.

However, Nuzman’s scope for movement is limited. The former president of the National Olympic Committee for Brazil (COB) may not leave Rio’s city limits. In addition, Nuzman is prohibited from entering the premises or premises of the COB and the Rio 2016 Organising Committee, as well as from making contact with other persons involved in the proceedings.

Nuzman was on the 5th. The Brazilian authorities arrested the Brazilian authorities on 1 October. One day later, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended him.

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.