The Olympic Games
Corruption at the Olympic games awarded to Rio and Tokyo?
Were postponed the Awarding of the Olympic games in 2016 and 2020? The French judiciary has apparently the beginning of a suspicion. The IOC wants the enlightenment, but sees no evidence for the allegations.
The Awarding of the Olympic summer games in 2016 and 2020 appear to come to the attention of the French investigating authorities. According to the English newspaper “The Guardian”, the French judiciary because of irregularities. The authorities are to be encountered in the case of corruption investigations against the International Association of athletics federations IAAF the relevant notes. The investigation was in an early stage.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on the sidelines of the Executive session in Lausanne: “The IOC is in close contact with the French investigators since the beginning of the investigation in the past year.” The IOC have asked to be always in a timely manner on the state of things informed. However, a spokesman also stressed that there is as yet no evidence of bribery in the Olympic procurement. To change this, would be the IOC immediately.
Lamine Diack at the heart of the investigation
Examines the roles of the former heads of the athletics world Federation, the Senegalese Lamine Diack, and his son, Papa Massata Diack. Lamine Diack was from 1999 to 2013, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). To him, the French authorities, had more than a Million euros in bribes have been accepted. He together with other accused within the IAAF anti-corruption system installed, to cover, for example, of positive doping samples, in return for payments of bribes. Already in the past weeks and months there had been indications that a possible error on Diacks behavior could have not only limited to athletics.
Lamine Diack device again into the visor of the investigators
Among other things, it was mentioned in a footnote of the second part of the report of the independent world anti-doping Agency investigation Commission, Istanbul, candidate city for the 2020 Olympic games, the support Diacks lost, because no sponsors deal came to be in the millions. Instead, Tokyo was awarded the contract. E-Mails also indicated that Diack Junior had been involved in grants to six IOC members during the awarding of the 2016 games. He had sent in may 2008, these e-Mails to a Qatari businessman. Doha, capital of Qatar, had applied for the games in 2016, but not in the finals done. Already in January, the “Guardian” from a E had quoted-Mail from Diacks son Papa Massata, a total of six former IOC members with a “special gift packages” in the course of the application process for 2016 in conjunction could bring. Papa Massata Diack was as a Marketing representative for the world Association and is now
life been locked.