Olympic Games 2020: Brisante Mails: Awarding of contracts to Tokyo moves into the spotlight

The allegations of corruption surrounding the awarding of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games seem to have been confirmed. From the point of view of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office in Paris, a mail traffic from the day of allocation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to Tokyo in 2013 would have special probative force. This is reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The mail traffic between Lamine Diack, then president of the International Athletics Association (IAAF) and his son Papa Massata Diack, former marketing consultant of the IAAF, suggests that it is suspected that similar to the summer games in Rio 2016, it was also agreed before Tokyo, especially since father and son Diack are said to have controlled the voting of the African block.

Massata Diack sent a panic mail to his father, an influential member of the IOC, in Buenos Aires on Election Day 2013:”According to your African colleague, Sheikh Ahmad seems to be doing everything possible to get the Africans to vote for Madrid! Father Lamine is said to have replied,”We can talk about it after the meeting.”

According to the e-mails, Lamine Diack has indeed had an influence on the voting behaviour of the African bloc, which should under no circumstances be in favour of Madrid. In fact, Africa voted in the bloc, Tokyo finally won the election ahead of Istanbul and Madrid and will host the Summer Games for the second time in just under three years after 1964.

Already three days before the summer games of Rio 2016 were awarded, about 1.5 million US dollars from Brazil should have been donated to an agency of Papa Massata Diack in 2009. Rio’s head of organisation, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, is therefore currently being questioned by the authorities in his country. Even before the Tokyo Free Dance by the IOC, a total of 1.8 million euros from Japan is said to have been donated to a Massata Diack company.