the Corruption-scandal
the Begin
IOC-member Marc Hodler (80-years) told about the corruption in the IOC at Saturday 12 December 1998 in Lausanne, the IOC forbid him to express his views immediately. He told that members were bought over for their vote for the cities Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney and Salt Lake City. Last-named should had bought over African members by giving members of their family studentship and medical help. Besides they had to pay at least 500,000 dollar to a middleman and if the city won, than the city had to pay the middleman 3 to 5 million dollar more.
The cities were approached by a middleman, who should settle it (there were ± 4 active with buying over). The Sydney-organization said that they refused the offer of a middleman.
The investigation after this began, and got the name committee-Pound (named after the president of the investigationcommittee Pound). The committee presented their investigationreport at Sunday 24-1-'99.
Volkskrant: Mon 14-12-'98
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What was wrong?
- 16 members corruptly accepted money
- Some members chose the city which offers free holidays for the whole family, 'entertainment' and 'presents'.
- 50 members vote for the Winter Olympics for the city, where their wife want to go on holidays
Volkskrant: Sat 23-1-'99
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Middlemen gave votes for money, members blackmail cities
Middlemen are already active since 1980 to buy members over for applicantcities for high amounts. One middleman should settle 25 votes for 2 million dollar (whereof two-third beforehand, and one-third if the city have the Olympics). Another one, could buy over 9 European IOC-members, for 50,000 to 100,000 dollar per vote.
So if you don't agree to the offers of the middlemen you never have a chance, because else another applicantcity agree with the offer. Salt Lake City, spent for 780,000 dollar on hush-money to get the Olympics. Now have Salt Lake City financial problems too, they need a lot of money, or else, sports will be canceled...
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden: Sat 23-1-'99
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IOC-members extort Nagano
Well, it isn't so bad. But according to the report of the Japanese Olympic Committee, broke a number of members the visitrule seriously. Those should have visit Nagano twice times or more often, and/or was under medical care at expense of the Japanese OC. They didn't give names, but the Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun gave names. The four most serious offenders were: Zerguini (Algeria), Helmick (USA), Arroyo (Ecuador) and Rana (Mexico). Beside were there 5 offenders, but to a less extent: Yu Sun Kim (North-Korea), Padilha (Brazil), Havelange (Brazil too), Bello (Portugal) and Benjeloum (Morocco).
Volkskrant: Sat 13-2-'99
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Nagano destroid even evidence that they had bought over
The organization-committee of Nagano, so became known, had burnt 10 piles of paper in which stood that they bought members over. Peter Tallberg had via Nagano, placed his three sons in jobs, David Sibandze (Swaziland) his son too should got a job and 111,000 dollar charges and stipends. The piles were already destroyed in 1992, after that Nagano got the Winter Olympics of 1998, by order of the mayor of Nagano (Tasuku Tsukada). But according to The Washington Post and The New York Times should give a number of IOC-members the order to burn it. The city Nagano bought finally over for more than 2 million dollars. Rightly before the voting was in Birmingham in 1991, was there a big Japanese company departed to Birmingham and hired there a villa. They invited much IOC-members, and appease them. That villa has been described as: "a secret place of amusement, where in kimono wrapped women served Japanese titbits." The total expenses in 1991 were for Nagano 5,5 million dollar.
Volkskrant: Fry 22-1-'99 / Thue 4-2-'99 / Mon 15-2-'99
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Bribery by Sydney and 2000-problems
At 22 January were there documents divulged in which stood that the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) a month before the voting, 2 African IOC-member were bought over. They paid the hotel expenses allowances in London of the two members and they set up a fund for African athletes.
John Coates (AOC-president) confessed that they had guaranteed two members that they might been in London for free and they made available 1.15 million dollar for training ends in 11 African countries.
The IOC got from the German party Die Grünen reports sent in of the campaign for Berlin 2000. In it stand among other things that the campaignteam tried several times to buy over and breaking of rules. The team had spent 1.3 million dollar on 56 visiting IOC-members, the members received expensive presents and paid medical costs and flying costs. Samaranch should bring in a bill of 3000 dollar for a flight from Stuttgart to Berlin!
Volkskrant: Sat 23-1-'99 / Wed 27-1-'99
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Investigate dossiers Sydney according to Sydney-president
The president of the SOCOG (organizationcommittee Sydney) Michael Knight wanted let investigate all dossiers about the campaign of Sydney by an independent investigationteam. That had to let's the rumours about the corruption by the Olympics of 2000 out 'once and for all'. "Because,"
he said, "the Olympics for Australia are too important to let exist doubts about it."
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Volkskrant: Sat 6-2-'99
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Salt Lake City got the Olympics of 2002 too fast
In 1995 voted the members of the IOC during a conference in Budapest. That was the first votinground. Salt Lake got immediately 54 votes, Sion and Östersund each 14 and Quebec only 7. Were there 6 corrupt members in the room?
Well, they tried to buy over at least 10 members. How? Well, with many many money. The woman of Saiuli Wallwork (Samoa) wanted a loan, and got it of the value of 30,000 dollar, the amount is never paid back. Mohamed Zerguinui his grandson (Algeria) received 14,500 dollar, for something what nobody knows. The son of Shagdarjav Magvan (Mongolia) received 5500 dollar traveling-allowance when he went to Salt Lake City for a practical. Austin Sealy (Barbados) got 3000 dollar a month for consultationwork. The IOC-members Willi Kaltschmitt (Guatemala) and Phillip Coles (Australia) went with their family - full groomed - to the Super Bowl. Anani Matthia (Togo), Ashwini Kumar (India), Ram Ruhee (Mauritius) and Henry Adefope (Nigeria) got flying-tickets make good of members of the family.
On what spent Salt Lake City more? Here comes a row: a violin (524), door-handles (637), bathroomattributes (1488), gardenfurniture (268), iceboxes (2690), mattresses (1282), a golden retriever (300), university- and livingexpenses (108350) of Sonia Essomba (Cameroon). The number between ( ) is the amount in dollars. The IOC-members and family were grateful for the presents.
By the voting in Budapest won Salt Lake City with a giant triumph, and to be on the safe side had the organizationcommittee took along with them a box with 30,000 dollar, to be sure that doubting members should vote for Salt Lake City.
Volkskrant: Sat 23-1-'99 / Thu 11-2-'99 Sat 13-2-'99
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Repeat of 1976?
Salt Lake City got moneyproblems after the scandal. Some money-lenders said that they donate money later, appointments for money were canceled and several organizations asked for explanation. So had the organizationcommittee a shortage of 1.45 billion dollar. Now they are affraid for the same failure as in 1976, when the population of Denver voted against the Olympics and that Innsbruck might organize the Olympics. The Olympics in Salt Lake City are so already a second-rate Olympics before they are begon.
Volkskrant: Tue 26-1-'99
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Cape Town 2004
Cape Town tried to organize the Olympics of 2004, they had an offer of a middleman, to buy over IOC-members for votes for Cape Town, the president didn't agree to the offer.
Volkskrant: Wed 27-1-'99
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Even more
The Australian Phillip Coles was in the organizationcommittee of Sydney. And there was divulged that he by the organizationcommittee of Salt Lake City coddled. He was there 4 times with his family and one time alone. He said later that he went out of the organizationcommittee.
Four IOC-member took advantage of the hospitality of Stockholm, which participate for the organization of 2004. They left hotelbills after residence, drunk cognac of 460 dollar per bottle. Mr and Mrs Mitchell (Fiji) left a telephonebill of 690 dollar and a hotelbill of 4600 dollar. Sipercos (Romania), let pay his doctors' bill. Women of some IOC-members went to beauty salon and let pay the bill by the applicantcity.
Volkskrant: Thu 11-2-'99
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What may IOC-members??
Just visiting the applicantcities (what is paid by the cities), and than voting for the place you think it is the best one. What don't may, is that you buy so much, call, or do we know what and than leave the bills for the applicantcities and that they have to pay that. Accepting gifts is allowed (that is taken aback you, isn't it?), as long as that gift isn't worth more as 150 dollar, bigger gifts have to be given to the National Olympic Committee of the country of the IOC-member. As member you may not been persuaded by the quantity of the gift (and not the size of the gifts)!
Volkskrant: Thu 11-2-'99
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Own resign
These members had submitted their resignation:
- Pirjo Häggman (Finland)
- Bashir Mohames Attarabulsi (Libya)
- David Sibandze (Swaziland)
- Charles Mukora (Kenya)
Volkskrant: Wed 20-1-'99 / Thu 21-1-'99 / Sat 23-1-'99 / Thu 28-1-'99
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Juan Antonio Samaranch received staggering blows
The American sponsors wanted that Samaranch retired, at Fry 22-1-'99 announced Samaranch that he doesn't retire at all. He said: "I am the president, so I get to digest the most staggering attacks. It is now more than ever my duty to stay and solve the crisis."
There was making a clean sweep in the IOC, and now was Samaranch accused of bribery. The organizationcommittee of Nagano gave him a samurai-sword, but he doesn't vote, so he isn't 'wrong' at work.
Samaranch should accepted expensive paintings and kimonos of several ten-thousands dollars too (more IOC-members had accepted presents in May 1991). The IOC denied that Samaranch got a sword. Else it should have been registered (they said, but if it an effort was to buy over it isn't registered seems us). There are offered paintings, but not to Samaranch according to the IOC, but to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
But, Samaranch saved the IOC of his end. In 1980 became Samaranch the IOC-president, and outlived a Western boycott in 1980, and that in 1984 only one private institution wanted to organize the Olympics. But after that, became the IOC an organization with status, only was Samaranch mistaken, when he said in 1998 during an interview with the American TV-transmitter NBC: "Maybe is our biggest problem that we don't have problems."
Volkskrant: Wed 20-1-'99 / Sat 23-1-'99
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New disclosures about Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch, was he corrupt busy or not? Now it is not clearly, but how he came into the IOC, maybe.
Samaranch became in the fifties government commissioner for Sportbusiness for Catalonia, and ten years later for whole Spain (and not 'Minister of Sport', what he likes to say). In 1992 became he Marquess, when king Juan Carlos raised to the peerage, because of his exertins for the Olympics of Barcelona. Indeed, Samaranch had connections with Franco too, but he used them only to get entry to the IOC. Samaranch joined the IOC for Spain. At the end of the seventies he became ambassador in Moscow. Moscow had no problems with that, because Samaranch was a good adviser for the Olympics in Moscow in 1980. Samaranch his main object was realized in 1982, when the elections for the President of the IOC, he got there many votes of the Eastern bloc, because he was ambassedor.
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden: Sat 23-1-'99
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Consequence: American sponsors come into lead
The American sponsors have had it with it, according to Andrew Jennings, they wanted that IOC-president Juan Antonio Samaranch retired.
The sponsors wanted to decide what there happened with their sponsormoney themselves, and therefore they took over the control (because without them, have the IOC a much smaller budget). The IOC didn't want to expel, but that wanted the sponsors.
Kevan Gosper answered at the question "Have the sponsor took over the control?": "Not at all."
And he said that from conviction, "the sponsors wanted to be good informed, nothing more. They got publicity for much money, nothing more. They are sponsors, and nothing more."
Volkskrant: Fry 22-1-'99 / Sat 23-1-'99
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"Selectsystem IOC have to go broke"
Samaranch wanted to seize the corruptible members, they broke the Olympic Oath. However, Marc Hodler wanted that the 4 middlemen (scoundrels) were seized and not the host cities (the victims).
Samaranch thinks that only the daily management may indicate the host city, just like by the FIFA for the World Championship. The daily management is just beneath Samaranch.
Volkskrant: Sat 23-1-'99
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Who were at the list?
| Name | Country | Proposed
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| Arroyo | Ecuador | Expulsion
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| Attarabulsi | Libya | Already moved on
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| Essomba | Cameroon | Was already died
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| Fantini | Chile | Expulsion
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| Gadir | Sudan | Expulsion
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| Ganga | Republic Congo | Expulsion
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| Geesink | the Netherlands | Warning
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| Häggman | Finland | Already moved on
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| Keita | Mali | Expulsion
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| Mukora | Kenya | Already moved on
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| N'Diaye | Ivory Coast | Further investigation
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| Sibandze | Swaziland | Already moved on
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| Smirnov | Russia | Further investigation
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| Yong Kim | South-Korea | Further investigation
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Volkskrant: Mon 25-1-'99
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