Bulgarian Olympic committee president Slavkov to come before IOC

SOFIA (AFP) - Ivan Slavkov was set to come before the International Olympic Committee ethics commission in Lausanne after being suspended on August 14 for suspected corruption.
The 64-year-old president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, the son-in-law of the late Bulgarian communist dictator Todor Zivkov, risks being thrown out of the Olympic movement if found guilty.
Slavkov, who was exposed in a BBC Panorama programme about vote-buying for the 2012 Olympics, was suspended and stripped of all IOC membership rights by the IOC and had his credentials for Athens withdrawn.
Meanwhile Sofia prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into the BBC journalists with the charge of "incitement to corruption," Bulgarian radio said.
Prosecutors suspect the journalists used illegal means of surveillance to implicate Slavkov, who has been president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee since 1982 and of the Bulgarian football federation since 1995.