THREE top officials of Kenya’s Olympic committee have been arrested in Nairobi as investigators dig into a series of scandals and embarrassments at the Rio games, police sources said.Francis Paul, secretary-general of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock), was arrested on Friday, one of the police sources said on condition of anonymity.His deputy James Chacha and Stephen Arap Soi, who headed the Kenyan delegation to Rio, were both arrested at Nairobi airport just as they returned from the Brazil games, he added.The arrests are "part of the investigation into the Rio scandal, and the poor management of the team for the entirety of the Games," he said.Another police source said the men are being held at a police station in northeastern Nairobi, and that they are due to be charged on Monday for their chaotic management and alleged theft of official sports gear.The Kenyan government on August 18 ordered a probe into the allegations.The officials’ embarrassing performance had a ...
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