Rio 2016 marks a negative milestone: Carlos Nuzman, its promoter and boss, sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for corruption

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FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman leaves the public jail Jose Frederico Marques in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman leaves the public jail Jose Frederico Marques in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Carlos Nuzman, head of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for corruption, an unprecedented event in Olympic history.

Unlike what happened with the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Games, axis of a huge corruption scandal that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) resolved with a severe internal purge and reform of its structures, the Rio case escalated to the Brazilian justice system and never stopped.

Judge Marcelo Bretas ruled Thursday that Nuzman was guilty of buying votes to win the Games for Rio in the 2009 election in Copenhagen. Nuzman, 79, will not go to prison pending the resolution of his appeals. Neither he nor his lawyer commented on the decision so far, nor did the IOC.

(developing news)