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Rio 2016 chief Nuzman arrested in Brazilian vote buying scandal
By
Nick Butler
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman has been arrested by Brazilian police today for alleged involvement in a vote-buying scandal connected to their successful bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Federal police officials arrived at the of house of the 75-year-old in Leblon, an upmarket area in Rio de Janeiro, shortly before 6am today and issued a temporary arrest warrant for five days.
Nuzmna's right-hand man Leonardo Gryner, the Rio 2016 general director, has also been arrested.
It had emerged earlier this week that Nuzman and Gryner had met with Brazilian businessman Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho shortly before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Copenhagen in October 2009 where Rio de Janeiro was awarded the Games ahead of Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo.
According to
O'Globo, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office have said that they issued the arrest warrant because of an attempt to conceal property since a search was conducted of Nuzman's house last month.
They also claimed that Nuzman, a lawyer by profession, and Gryner are being indicted for "corruption, money laundering and criminal organisation".
Nuzman is suspected by Brazilian prosecutors of being the main link between de Menezes, a businessman nicknamed "King Arthur", and Senegal's former International Association of Athletics Federations President Lamine Diack.
Diack was a voting member of the IOC at the time Rio was awarded the Olympic and Paralympic Games eight years ago.
De Menezes allegedly provided $1.5 million (£1.2 million/€1.4 million) through a company set-up by Diack's son, Papa Massata, to help solicit the votes of African IOC members in return for supporting Rio 2016.
Nuzman, a former volleyball player who represented Brazil at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, has already surrendered his Brazilian and Russian passports to the authorities and is unable to leave Brazil.
He had, however, not previously been arrested.
It is also thought that disgraced former Rio State Governor Sérgio Cabral was involved in the alleged scheme.
Cabral was sentenced to 14 years in prison in June after being found guilty of various corruption and money laundering charges, some of which were related to World Cup and Olympic construction projects.
