New Head of BOC Changes Bylaws to Escape Rio-2016 Obligations

11/17/2017 - 12h43

The new head of the Brazilian Olympics Committee (BOC), Paulo Wanderley Teixeira, 67, has been making arrangements in order to avoid the management of Rio-2016 organization committee, as determined by the entities' bylaws.

The proposal for the new BOC's bylaws, which shall be approved at a meeting in Rio next Wednesday (22), excludes an item about overlapping of positions. Without such item, Teixeira will not be required to assume debts of roughly R$ 160 million (US$ 48 million).

The deadlock regarding the Olympic Committee's management became more worrisome last week, after Carlos Arthur Nuzman, who was the head of the committee, resigned - he was released from jail after being granted habeas corpus, but was suspended from the committee due to vote-buying allegations related to Rio's election to host the Games.

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	Paulo Wanderley, the Brazil Olympic Committee president ( Foto: Ricardo Borges/Folhapress)

As soon as Teixeira became head of BOC in October, he began arrangements to change the obligation of presiding Rio-2016, as well as to amend BOC's bylaws to remove such provision.

Folha found that, according to the new bylaws, there is no obligation of presiding the committee of any large events in the country.

In addition to the exclusion of that provision, there is also a proposal for the creation of a board of directors, an ethics council, and to expand the electoral college with the participation of more athletes.

After Nuzman's resignation and Texeira's rejection, Rio-2016 has about 20 employees.

Translated by ANA BEATRIZ DEMARIA

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