Brazilian officials have claimed that the country's Olympics chief Carlos Nuzman was the lynchpin in a plot to bribe the International Olympic Committee, IOC, into awarding Rio de Janeiro last year's games. Brazilian Police yesterday said, they were probing an international corruption scheme aimed at the buying of votes for the election of Rio by the IOC as the venue for the 2016 Olympics. Police said, after a nine-month investigation, spanning several countries, Nuzman has been taken in for questioning and his house is being searched. Meanwhile, an IOC spokesman said, the committee has learned about these circumstances from the media and is making every effort to get the full information.