He was found guilty of the crimes of corruption, criminal organization, money laundering and currency evasion.
The former president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) Carlos Nuzman was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the alleged purchase of votes for Rio to become the host of the 2016 Games, according to a court ruling published on Thursday. .
Rio de Janeiro federal judge Marcelo Bretas found him guilty of the crimes of corruption, criminal organization, money laundering and currency evasion.
Nuzman, 79, will be able to appeal the sentence in freedom. The former leader was imprisoned in 2017 during the investigation of the case, but was released fifteen days later by order of a higher court.
Together with Nuzman, the former governor of Río Sergio Cabral, who has been imprisoned since the end of 2016 and was convicted of several cases of corruption during his term (2007-2014), and the former director of Operations and Marketing of the COB Leonardo Gryner were convicted.
According to the ruling, Nuzman and Gryner brokered the payment of up to two million dollars to the former president of the International Athletics Federation, the Senegalese Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata Diack, in exchange for six votes from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in favor of River.
Former Governor Cabral turned to businessman Arthur Soares to disburse the money through one of his companies, based in the British Virgin Islands.
Judge Bretas points out to Nuzman as “one of the main responsible for the promotion and organization of the criminal scheme, given his position in the Brazilian Olympic Committee and before international authorities.”
Gryner, Nuzman’s confidant, was sentenced to thirteen years and ten months.
Former Governor Cabral was sentenced to ten years and eight months.
In the 2009 vote, which took place in Copenhagen, Rio prevailed over the candidates Madrid, Chicago and Tokyo.
Nuzman was president of the COB between 1995 and 2017. (I)
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