Brazil Olympic chief buffer $2 million bribe to buy Rio Games — police

Brazilian investigators said that, politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a $2 million bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro, despite the city having the worst conditions to host the event.

Police in Rio raided the home of Brazil's Olympics chief, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with former state Governor Sergio Cabral, already convicted in a separate corruption case, to buy the games.

Tuesday's development drove home the stunning fall from grace of officials who sold the idea that Rio's Olympics would transform a developing-world city through giant strides in security, infrastructure and environmental improvements.

As part of "Operation Unfair Play," a federal judge ordered the seizure of Nuzman's passport and his questioning about an alleged $2 million bribe to secure the vote of Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Prosecutors allege that conspirators led by Cabral gave $2 million for the elder Diack's influential vote and for him to convince other IOC members from Africa to bring the 2016 games to Rio, with Nuzman making connections on both sides.

UCJ, UNILORIN.