The former president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, Carlos Nuzman, was sentenced Friday to 30 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the alleged purchase of votes for the award of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Nuzman, 79, who was also president of the organizing committee for the Rio Games, was found guilty of "corruption, criminal organization, money laundering and currency evasion", according to the sentence of judge Marcelo Bretas, to which AFP had access Friday.

The former boss of Brazilian Olympism (1995-2017) will be able to remain at liberty pending the judgment on appeal.

He was arrested in October 2017 and spent 15 days in prison, before being released on parole by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).

"Nuzman is one of the main people responsible for the organization of the criminal network, in view of his position at the Brazilian Olympic Committee and vis-à-vis the international authorities," Judge Bretas said.

An intermediary role to pay Lamine Diack

This magistrate also sentenced to imprisonment the former governor of Rio Sergio Cabral, behind bars since November 2017 for numerous corruption cases, and Leonardo Gryner, former right-hand man of Nuzman. In his sentence, he assures that Nuzman and Gryner served as intermediaries for the payment of approximately two million dollars to Lamine Diack, ex-president of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) and his son Papa Massata Diack.

This sum would have been paid in exchange for six votes for Rio during the vote of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the attribution of the 2016 Olympics. The Brazilian city was chosen to the detriment of Madrid, Chicago and Tokyo, in 2009, in Copenhagen. .

According to Judge Bretas, the funds were transferred at Sergio Cabral's request by entrepreneur Arthur Soares, through a company based in the British Virgin Islands.

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