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Olympic Notes: Kenyan Chef De Mission Accused Of Stealing $256,000

Prosecutors alleged in court on Wednesday that Kenya's Rio de Janeiro Olympics Chef de Mission Stephen Arap Soi stole $256,000 "from government and sports authorities meant for the athletes’ and officials’ stay" at the Games. Soi "denied five counts of stealing money." Prosecutors said that he took $234,000 with him on a flight to Brazil "without declaring it to customs officials, and which then went missing," and stole the remaining $22,000 in smaller amounts on separate occasions. Two other officials, Kenyan Olympic Committee VP Pius Ochieng and Secretary-General Francis Kinyili Paul, "appeared alongside Soi in a Nairobi court, and denied charges of stealing Olympic team uniforms provided by sponsor Nike" (AP, 9/28).

'SEVERE REPRIMANDS': The IOC has issued "severe reprimands" to Team GB boxer Anthony Fowler and Irish fighters Michael Conlan and Steven Donnelly "for betting on the boxing competition at Rio 2016, contrary to Olympic rules." As they were not betting on their own contests, the trio have "escaped without bans" but they have been told they must take part in "integrity education programmes." There are also reprimands for the British Olympic Association and Olympic Council of Ireland for "failing to educate their athletes that they are not allowed to gamble on Olympic events" (PA, 9/28).

TOKYO LOGO: Police on Wednesday said that a U.S. citizen living in southwestern Japan "has been arrested for trademark infringement through unauthorized use of a 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics logo." David Roy Uhlstein, an assistant language teacher in Kumamoto Prefecture, "is suspected of having sold five items such as mugs and smartphone cases bearing the logo for the Tokyo campaign to host the Games without the organizing committee's permission, according to the police." He allegedly received a total of 6,540 yen ($65) "for selling those items via the Internet" between May '15 and February (KYODO, 9/28).

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