AFP, 10/03/2012
Brazilian football great Romario, now a socialist lawmaker, on Wednesday called for a probe of his country’s Olympic committee over allegedly questionable sales for Rio’s summer Games in 2016.
The former FC Barcelona striker and 1994 World Cup winner pointed the finger at Carlos Nuzman, president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), and demanded an audit of its accounts and the source of public funds it is given.
He also insinuated that Patrick Hickey, a friend of Nuzman and member of the executive board of the International Olympic Committee, was abusing his post to ensure the contract for ticket sales for Ireland go to a subsidiary of a firm that employs his son, Stephen Hickey.
