International Olympic Committee members from at least 23 nations received more than $1.3 million in benefits from Salt Lake City bidders seeking the 2002 Winter Olympics. A 300-page independent ethics panel report issued yesterday detailed the payments and some of the major pay-outs are listed below.
Korea - Kim Unn Yong: Son's salary at telecommunications company paid by Salt Lake organisers. Records show $45,000 in payments. Daughter was paid $5,000 for an arranged performance with the Utah Symphony three months before the 2002 vote. Kim also asked bidder to pay tuition for Russian Ekaterina Soukhorado, who received more than $15,000 in 1992.
Congo - Jean-Claude Ganga: Family received more than $250,000, including $115,000 in travel expenses starting in 1990, a direct cash payment of $70,010 and $17,172 in paid health care. Also reaped a $60,000 profit from a land deal aided by his Utah contacts.
United States - Alfredo La Mont: The recently-resigned USOC international relations director aided bid chief Tom Welch in dealings with Latin American IOC members. La Mont received $25,714 for consulting from Welch and $18,185 for another account from which $3,000 monthly payments were made to IOC member Austin Sealy of Barbados, the report said.
Sudan - Three athletes granted more than $40,000 to train for the 1996 Olympics. In an electronic mail exchange found by the investigating panel, bidders protested the cost only to be told by La Mont that "a lot of promises were made to secure votes." Zuhair Gadir, the son of Sudanese IOC member Zein El Abdin Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Gadir, was paid $17,000 while a non-existent daughter of the IOC member was paid $7,000 weeks before the Budapest vote. Consultant Mahmoud El Farnawani was paid $148,260 and Muttaleb Ahmad, Olympic Council of Asia director general, was paid $62,400 to lobby North African and Middle East IOC members.
Finland - Pirjo Haeggman: Husband got $33,750 in a phony job with an area engineering firm.
Western Samoa - Seiuli Paul Wallwork: Welch sent $30,000 in 1991 to Wallwork's wife.
Swaziland - David Sibandze: His son was paid $111,389 between 1991 and 1996.
Mongolia - Shagdarjav Magvan: His son had a year-long internship at a local bank plus $6,554 in aid.
Ecuador - Agustin Arroyo: Nancy, his 44-year-old daughter, was paid living expenses of nearly $23,000 from a scholarship fund although she was not a student. The Arroyo family also enjoyed a $10,000 paid vacation at nearby Park City in 1994.
Cameroon - Rene Essomba (deceased): Daughter had an all-expenses paid education at the American University in Washington worth $108,350. She also received $60,000 in the final months before the Budapest vote.
Australia - Phil Coles: Family taken on $20,000 Super Bowl trip.
Miscellaneous - Raouf Scally received $14,500 from 1993 to 1996 but there were no records to show why. He was thought to be from Morocco and a relative of Mohamed Zerguini, the IOC member from Algeria. Other tuition assistance pay-outs included $97,275 to Suhel Attarabulsi, the son of Libyan IOC member Basher Attarabulsi and $62,696 to Moriba Keita, the son of Mali IOC member Lamine Keita. Kenyan IOC member Charles Mukora was paid $34,650 some of which was part of a Kenyan sport support program, while $20,050 went to Sergio Santander-Fantini, the IOC member from Chile, with no documentation.