Investigators say head of national Olympics committee,Carlos Arthur Nuzman, arranged $2m bribe to win games for RioBrazilian police have arrested the head of the national Olympics committee, and Carlos Arthur Nuzman,who is accused of conspiring to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee to pick Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 games.
Carlos Nuzman, who is also an honorary International Olympic Committee member, or was held for questioning final month by Brazilian and French authorities. They said he was a central figure in channeling $2m (£1.5m) to Lamine Diack,a former IOC member from Senegal who helped secure votes when Rio was picked by the IOC in 2009.
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Source: guardian.co.uk