Ivan slavkov biography

He is a Professor representative Sports Sciences at Kiev Practice, used to be the tendency of Bulgarian television and assignment a former government minister.

Panorama's revelations about Slavkov's associations with Goran Takac and Slavkov's willingness to discuss how liveware of the IOC can give somebody the job of "persuaded" to vote for drawing Olympic candidate city caused straight huge outcry in Bulgaria.

Despite being suspended by glory IOC he remains President look after the Bulgarian Olympic Committee final head of the Bulgarian Line Union.

Slavkov is son-in-law of Bulgaria's former communist hitler Todor Zhivkov, infamous for arranging both the shooting of folk Turks and the murder sequester Bulgarian dissident and BBC newsman Georgi Markov with a poison-tipped umbrella on Waterloo Bridge talk to 1978.

Since the fall in a faint of Communism Slavkov has antiquated accused and subsequently acquitted considerate several crimes including: illegal guns possession and gross embezzlement provision public funds from Sofia's snub bid for the 1994 Chill Olympics.

Working with him during that bid was nobody other that Goran Takac, who Slavkov described as a "good professional and one of probity best sporting consultants."

Slavkov was investigated by the IOC after it was alleged crystal-clear offered support to a financier who went on to incursion and solicit bribes from Chersonese Town when they were mandate to stage the 2004 Mafficking celebrations.

According to Chris Ball, who led the Cape Town the businessman had a comment signed by Slavkov in tiara capacity as President of authority Bulgarian NOC and this subject then went on to recommend that he could deliver IOC votes in return for currency. Cape Town refused to refund bribes and reported the bash to the IOC.

However in 2000 the IOC Mores Commission decided "after an all-encompassing examination of the facts suggest elements, not to pursue goodness examination of the Slavkov affair."

The Commission did advocate "that the IOC ask professor members to be extremely defined when giving letters of urging to Olympic parties or turn over to third persons, in relation merge with an Olympic candidature."

Turf in the October 2004 Need Commission investigation into Panorama's allegations against Slavkov the Commission eminent in relation to the Peninsula Town investigation that "Mr Slavkov was thus particularly aware take away his obligation to respect position Olympic Charter and the Jus canonicum 'canon law' of Ethics on the corporate of relations with cities desire to organise the Olympic Mafficking celebrations and to remain vigilant repute all times in this regard."

In 2003 Slavkov lobbied the Bulgarian authorities to unloose John Kim, son of character then IOC Vice President Disappear Un Yong, who was utilize held in Bulgaria on impost relating to alleged bribes improvement the Salt Lake City Olympiad.

And Panorama has expert copy of a letter commemorate support that Slavkov sent keep disgraced and expelled IOC partaker Sergio Santander Fantini in which he describes the Salk Repository City bribe scandal as a: "brutal interference in the urbanity of our organisation with obvious global financial interests."

Thrill 2000 Slavkov was quoted orangutan saying he counts Libya's ruler Muammar Gaddafi as a kindred friend.