Azerbaijan used $ 9 million to buy two Olympic gold medals?
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Azerbaijan used $ 9 million to buy two Olympic gold medals?

Baku : Azerbaijan | Sep 25, 2011 at 7:18 AM PDT
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Yesterday, BBC has taken shocking information village sports world, the Olympic officials receiving bribes of U.S. $ 9 million from the arrangements for Azerbaijan and the promise of this country won two boxing golds Olympic 2012 in London.

Key figures of bribery on the executive director of the boxing match (WSB) Ivan Khodabakhsh. He came to a secret agreement with the Government of Azerbaijan, then contact the Association of Amateur Boxing (AIBA) to ensure that Azerbaijan has HCV.

Head out to denounce the incident told the BBC: "Azerbaijan Khodabakhsh assured that they will get two gold medals in London, but in return they have secretly paid millions of dollars. It's scary when the medal was blatantly selling. " Also BBC also found the e-mail exchange between Khodabakhsh the AIBA executive director Ho Kim and a senior figure in the Azerbaijan government to the content: "Please transfer funds invest in property as soon as possible WSB accounts of America ".

Government officials have spoken of AIBA has confirmed receiving money from Azerbaijan, but denied charges of bribery, saying only that it was the money from investors and business. Also AIBA president Wu Ching Kuo has promised to investigate this and take measures to find a suitable punishment if the evidence clear.

Meanwhile, Khodabakhsh denied allegations, saying that the claims were lies, slander. Khodabakhsh said: "I have never discussed the sale of two gold medal for Azerbaijan".

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Azerbaijan used $ 9 million to buy two Olympic gold medals?
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