Scandals

Convictions

China (2001)
Cases of match-fixing in China's first division. It was suggested that 70 to 80 percent of the referees in China's new ''Super League'' had taken a bribe at least once.

The referee Gong Jianping was sentenced to 10 years for accepting bribes amounting to 370,000 yuan, or $46,250

Czech Republik (2004)
Officials in professional football accepting bribes. Ivan Hornik, the former sports director of the Czech football club Viktoria Zizkov was found to have offered bribes to referees and football officials.

Hornik received a suspended seven-month sentence and was fined 900,000 crowns (US$37,690). He also received a 10-year ban from Czech football. Ten other officials and referees received smaller sentences and fines.

Germany (2005)
Referees and Players accepted bribes for match-fixing. The fraud was organized by the brothers Ante, Filip and Milan Sapina.

The player Steffen Karl was sentenced for nine month on probation. Two referees were convicted: Robert Hoyzer, who accepted a bribe of 67,000 Euros and a plasma TV, was sentenced to two years and 5 month; and Dominik Marks, who accepted bribes amounting to 6000 Euros was sentenced to 18 month on probation. The ringleader Sapina was sentenced to 2 years and 11 month.

Brazil (2005)
Two FIFA-referees, Edilson Pereira de Carvalho and Paulo José Danelon admitted to fixing matches in professional football for an illegal betting syndicate.

Both de Carvalho and Danelon face charges of fraud, conspiracy and financial crime. De Carvalho was paid up to $15,000( ca. US $6,500) per fixed match. They are not convicted yet.

Italy (2006)
The current Italian football scandal revolves mainly around match-fixing, but extends to other crimes. Bribery, extortion, kidnapping, tax evasion, illegal gambling and money laundering are on the list. Players, referees, club managers, government ministers, judges, police officers and others face allegations. Accused are Luciano Moggi (former manager of Juventus), Franco Carraro (former mayor of Rome and former head of the Italian football association), Massimo De Santis (referee), Marcello Lippi (national team coach), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus and national team goalie), Moggi’s and Lippi’s sons Luciano and Davide (both partners in GEA World, an athletic agency) among others.

No convictions yet.

More football scandals happened in:

Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Kenya, South Africa, Israel

Scandals

Convictions

Salt Lake City (1998/99)
Vote buying scandal. Ten IOC members accepted cash, gifts and other incentives in the Salt Lake City bid scandal.

Six IOC members were expelled and four resigned from the IOC in 1998/99. No judicial convictions.

Mohamad (Bob) Hasan (2004)
Former IOC Member from Indonesia was involved in a scandal concerning a forest-mapping project in the 1990s.

Hasan was convicted in his home country for embezzling more than US $200 million. He was sentenced to 6 years and was expelled from IOC.

Ivan Slavkov (2005)
IOC member involved in a vote-buying scandal.

Expelled from IOC 2005. No conviction.

Kim Un-yong (2005)
Former IOC vice president Kim Un-yong was accused of having embezzled several million dollars from the World Taekwondo Federation.

Kim was convicted in South Korea and was sentenced to two and a half years. He resigned from IOC 2005.

Yong Sung Park (2006)
The IOC member Park embezzled millions in a family feud over control of South Korea's oldest conglomerate.

Park was sentenced to a three- year suspended sentence in South Korea and a fine of US $8.3 million. In 2006 the IOC provisionally rescinded his IOC membership. He refuses to give up his membership.

Guy Drut (2006)
A Former Olympic champion, French sports minister and IOC member was involved in a corruption scandal. President Jacques Chirac recently pardoned him, so Drut is now able to rejoin the International Olympic Committee.

Drut was given a 15-month suspended sentence last October and fined US $60,000 in a corruption and party-financing trial. He benefited from a fictitious job at a construction company. 2005 the IOC provisionally suspended his membership.

Scandals

Convictions

Volleygate (starting 2002)
The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and Mario Goijman, former President of the Argentinean Volleyball Federation, have been hurling allegations and counter-allegations of corruption and wrongdoing since November 2002. In the focus of accusations is the FIVB president Ruben Acosta.

No convictions

Figure skating (2002)
Judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne (France) was pressured by the president of the French skating federation to vote for a Russian figure skating pair at the 2002 Olympics.

No convicitons

Karl-Heinz Wildmoser Jr. (2005)
Was the executive director of Stadion GmbH., assigned to manage the construction of the “Allianz” football stadium in Munich. He accepted € 2,8 million in bribes from an Austrian construction company.

Wildmoser Jr. was convicted and sentenced to four and a half years and fined € 2,8 Mill Euros.