In a shocking revelation that is sure to send tremors through the International Olympic Committee's heretofore untarnished reputation, it appears that the vote for the 2016 Summer Olympics host may have been rigged.According to Le Monde, wealthy Brazilian subcontractor Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho [engaged in the typical barely intelligible offshore money shell game shenanigans](Arthur Cesar de Menezes Soares Filho), which eventually led to $1.5 million ending up in the offshore account of IOC member and then-IAAF president Lamine Diack's son three days before the 2009 vote in Copenhagen. Another $500,000 was transferred to an offshore company owned by Diack himself; this is the same Diack who, in 2015, was arrested by French police for taking bribes to bury evidence of Russian doping. Diack had an entire section of the McLaren Report specifically about his role in covering up Russian doping and installing his sons as a show government of the IAAF.Exclusive : evidence of corruption over Rio's bid for the 2016 Olympic games — Stéphane Mandard (@StephaneMandard)March 3, 2017
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