MIES, Switzerland (AP) — Jacques Rogge says an IOC inquiry prompted by FIFA corruption allegations can seek sanctions against members implicated in wrongdoing before they joined the Olympic body.
The International Olympic Committee president says the organization has strict ethics rules for dealing with any member who “has become tainted” after past allegations are proven.
The IOC ethics commission recently asked the BBC to pass on evidence aired in a TV documentary alleging that African soccer president Issa Hayatou took a kickback from FIFA’s former marketing agency in 1995.
Hayatou became an IOC member in 2001. He says the payment of about $20,000 was a donation to the African Football Confederation.
Rogge expects the case will be submitted to the IOC executive board within months.
