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Police raid Kenya Olympic headquarters

National Olympic Committee of Kenya(NOCK) headquarters in Nairobi.

Kenyan police raided the country's Olympic headquarters Saturday probing a corruption scam that saw some of the nations' athletes deprived of team uniforms at the Rio Games.

Three top Olympic officials have already been arrested in the investigation, and the raid turned up dozens of boxes containing uniforms provided by sports goods manufacturer NIKE that were destined to be worn by athletes at the Rio opening ceremony.

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