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Azerbaijan Accused of Bribing Referees at the Olympic Games in Rio

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Azerbaijan is accused of involvement in a corruption scheme, launched at the Olympic Wrestling Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, according to haqqin.az. The whole "cobwebs" was ruled by the chief referee of UWW (United World Wrestling and World Union of struggle), German Antonio Silvestri, writes the American site flowrestling.org.

How did this scheme act and for what purpose it was created? According to the website statement, the task was to help to win medals to the wrestlers from Azerbaijan, Russia, and Uzbekistan. For this purpose the so-called "pool" of corrupt referees was created, which were mainly appointed to matches involving athletes from the three aforementioned countries.

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