RIO DE JANEIRO (REUTERS) – Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for purchasing votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.
The ruling was introduced by Choose Marcelo Bretas from the seventh Felony Court docket in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday (Nov 25).
The 79-year-old government, who was the pinnacle of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for greater than 20 years, was discovered responsible of cash laundering, tax evasion, corruption and legal organisation. Nuzman’s legal professionals appealed the sentence and he’ll keep free till the enchantment is heard.
Nuzman, a former honorary IOC member, was first arrested in October 2017 alongside along with his right-hand man, former Rio 2016 director of operations Leonardo Gryner, accused of arranging greater than US$2 million (S$2.74 million) in bribes to get the IOC to choose Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 Olympics. Rio was awarded the Video games in 2009, beating out Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.
Gryner, former Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral and businessman Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho had been additionally convicted for collaborating to bribe IOC officers. Gryner was sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in jail for corruption and legal group.
Cabral, who has been in jail since 2016 for a collection of corruption scandals, was sentenced to an additional 10 years and eight months. He had given the choose particulars of the bribery conspiracy after reaching an settlement to reveal delicate info on different circumstances.
Cabral instructed Bretas that he, Nuzman, Soares and Gryner coordinated “to purchase the votes” of the previous president of the Worldwide Affiliation of Athletics Federations, Lamine Diack, and his son, Papa Diack, and others.