The President Of The Rio Olympics Was Arrested For Buying Votes To Get The Games To Brazil...And?10/5/2017 Reuters- Brazilian police arrested on Thursday the head of the national Olympics committee, who is accused of conspiring to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pick Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 games.
Brazilian investigators say Carlos Arthur Nuzman helped arrange a $2 million bribe to get the games for Rio de Janeiro, where he was arrested early on Thursday. Police said he was being held in connection with crimes including corruption and money laundering. Marcelo Bretas, the federal judge who authorized his arrest, said new evidence indicated that Nuzman’s role in the alleged vote-buying scheme was “more relevant” than initially thought. Bretas said in an arrest order that Nuzman’s wealth grew by 416 percent between 2006 and 2016 and that he had assets overseas that were only declared after the vote-buying investigation began. The IOC said on Thursday it would cooperate in the investigation. Its chief ethics and compliance officer has asked Brazil for information to proceed with its own internal investigation, which is ongoing, the body said. Police raided Nuzman’s home in September, accusing him of conspiring with politicians to buy the right to host the 2016 games. Sergio Mazzillo, a lawyer for Nuzman, said then his client was innocent. ------- I'm all for the upholding of justice, but something about the timing of this arrest feels disingenuous. That's not to say that whatever sentence Carlos Arthur Nuzman is given for financially fixing an institutionally corrupt voting process wasn't totally, 100% percent earned. It is, however, to say that every single person that stood by the lighting of that torch so that they would be safer from disease-carrying mosquitos became an accomplice once it started billowing smoke. Honestly, there was always something fishy about a crime ridden, South American city winning the bid to host the World Games, and it damn sure wasn't their bodies of water because no form of marine life could survive that shit. You're telling me that we just became suspicious that Rio's campaign may not have been clean when they got a majority of people to vote in favor of bringing millions of people to a country that can't run a clean facet? There were athletes that spent four full years perfecting their craft that opted out of competing for a gold medal because they didn't want their pregnant wife to even be mildly associated with the word Zika. Maybe it's fitting this reads as though I am an eternal pessimist, because if you tried - at any point - to tell me the process that brought us the Rio Olympics was more pure than the disturbingly green water used to pool the world's best divers then I would have said "over my dead body". Honestly, this arrest just feels like a retroactive excuse for how poorly an international event went when it was destined to go poorly the second the IOC allowed the host city to get determined illegally. It's like getting coerced into allowing the couple who always shamelessly fights in public to host 'Friendsgiving', and then assigning them all the blame when 'Friendsgiving' predictably turns into a two person mud-slinging contest that's as awkwardly silent as whatever the fuck was taking place in Ryan Lochte's head that night. That doesn't acquit Carlos Arthur Nuzman from being an unlawful asshole that put a whole hell of a lot of people in danger by doing what was necessary to bring them to a place that obviously wasn't fit to adequately handle their arrival. Just don't let that distract you from the fact that (::channels inner Jay-Z::) the I-O-C been running this fraud shit. So, I guess I am glad that the "mastermind" who was able to purchase the ever-flexible votes of a committee that's historically as ethically unsound as FIFA is behind bars? Although, when you call Rio De Janeiro home, a cell might not be all that unsafe of a place to rest your head at night.
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