Former governor confirms vote buying for Rio 2016

According to Cabral, in the vote on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, nine of the 95 eligible voters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were bribed with a total of two million US dollars.

Cabral specifically accused the Ukrainian pole vault legend Sergei Bubka, an IOC member since 2008 and current vice president of the World Athletics Association, as well as the former Russian star swimmer Alexander Popov. The 47-year-old was a member of the IOC between 2000 and 2016 and has been an honorary member ever since. Both denied the allegations.

“I didn’t even vote for Rio” Alexander Popov “I will instruct my lawyers to use all legal means at their disposal,” Bubka said via Twitter, pointing out that Cabral is currently “serving a long prison sentence for corruption.” In a statement, Popov said he was “extremely surprised” that his name was mentioned in this context. He “never was in contact” with Cabral or other suspected masterminds. In addition, he could “say that I didn’t even vote for Rio de Janeiro,” said Popov, who also reserves the right to take legal action. From 1,5 to 2 million dollars The Senegalese Lamine Diack, then president of the International Athletics Association IAAF, was responsible for buying votes from the IOC members and distributing the sum, said Cabral. The contact came about through Brazil's then NOK President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, and the money was paid into Diack's accounts by the now-hidden serial entrepreneur Arthur Soares. Originally, only the purchase of six votes for 1,5 million US dollars was planned because Rio considered the IOC to be “very European” in the fight against Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo. But then Diack's son Papa Massata came and offered more manipulated votes for an additional $500.000. IOC investigates In response to SID's request, the IOC said that the ethics committee had "immediately investigated" Cabral's allegations and that the IOC members he had named had been "contacted": "The IOC is determined to address all questions that arise occurred before the far-reaching reforms of the Olympic Agenda 2020.” The package approved in 2014 is intended, among other things, to reduce the application costs for the Olympic Games and increase the transparency of the decision.

At the IOC session in Copenhagen, Rio became the first South American country to be chosen to host the Summer Games in the third and decisive round with a 66:32 vote against Madrid. The construction of stadiums and the construction of the necessary infrastructure are still the subject of corruption investigations in Brazil.

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Former governor confirms vote buying for Rio 2016

The former governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, confirmed vote-buying in the election of Brazil's host city for the 2016 Olympics and described the matter in detail during a court hearing on Thursday.

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