Former Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee Volodymyr Heraschenko had no right to discuss the sale of tickets to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games as he was drunk during the conversation, a member of the investigatory commission on the incident, Olha Zhukovska, has said.
“The problem is that he talked about an issue he had no right to
discuss, and moreover, he was drunk,” Zhukovska said in Kyiv on
Wednesday.
Earlier, the media carried a story claiming that Heraschenko had a
meeting at a London hotels with a reporter who posed as a ticket
scalper, and told the journalist that his duties included distributing
tickets among Ukrainian fans, coaches and officials, but that he needed
to stash about 100 tickets away for sale on the black market.
Heraschenko denied later that he had ever had any plans to sell tickets in Britain.
In late May, Heraschenko resigned from the position of secretary general at the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
