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Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario (right) and a former senior sports official Stephen Soi are escorted by a police officer as they leave anticorruption court in Milimani on Wednesday,September 15,2021 [Collins Kweyu,Standard]
A guilty verdict handed to former Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario by a Magistrate Court on Wednesday could have a significant impact on the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) election slated for later this year.
Wario and Stephen Soi were found guilty of abuse of office in graft charges relating to the 2016 Olympic Games.
The case, famously known as the Rio Scandal, took more than four years to be dispensed with.
Soi was the Rio Olympics Chief de Mission and was accused of among other charges, leasing a Yacht for President Uhuru Kenyatta.
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