The Deseret News has learned that Mongolian International Olympic Committee member Shagdarjav Magvan's son received financial assistance from Salt Lake City bidders to attend the University of Utah.
Yet Magvan, an IOC member since 1977, was not even mentioned in the IOC's report on its investigation released Sunday, even though one of his nine children, Bold, attended the U. in 1992.The amount contributed by the Salt Lake Bid Committee, about $762, apparently wasn't enough to warrant Magvan's inclusion in the report on misconduct by IOC members.
"Compared to the size of the other issues we were dealing with, it really wasn't very high on our Richter scale at that point. It's still an amount that may require some explanation," IOC Vice President Dick Pound said Friday.
Pound, the head of the IOC investigation, told the Deseret News there may still be other members implicated in the scandal.
"We ID'd 13 as being significant in amount and clearly requiring immediate followup," Pound said. "This was not on our radar screen at that time."
So far, a total of 14 IOC members have been named. Four have quit, five are expected to be expelled in March, three more remain under investigation, one received a warning and one died last year.
Two other IOC members, Bashir Attarabulsi of Libya and David Sibandze of Swaziland, whose sons attended Utah schools and received financial help from Salt Lake City's Olympic bid, resigned under the threat of expulsion from the IOC.
Both Shagdarjav and Bold Magvan were among the 120 people named in a subpoena sent to the University of Utah by the U.S. Justice Department investigation of the bid.
Attempts to reach Shagdarjav Magvan in Mongolia Friday were unsuccessful.
A German Olympic publication, Sport Intern, stated Magvan was no longer in the group under suspicion because his "benefits in Salt Lake City have since been declared to be mere trifles."
According to the U. registrar's office, Bold Magvan, 36, was enrolled at the university only for the 1992 spring quarter. He did not earn a degree.
A second name that appears to be linked with one of the IOC members still under investigation, Vitaly Smirnov of Russia, was also confirmed by the registrar as a U. student.
Ekaterina Soukhorado, 27, is listed by the U. registrar's office as a pre-business major who attended classes as a senior from the spring quarter of 1992 through the spring quarter of 1993.
Pound said he could not comment on Soukhorado or her relationship to Smirnov.
The IOC report stated several allegations have been raised against Smirnov about "benefits received by third parties as a result of his intervention and about excessive gifts."
The Salt Lake Organizing Committee said shortly after the scandal broke that 13 people received payments to attend schools in the United States through a scholarship program described as intended to help students in Third World countries.
However, SLOC also acknowledged that the payments went to six relatives of IOC members. So far, only four recipients connected to the IOC have been identified.
Attarabulsi's son, Suhel, told the Deseret News his tuition at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake Community College and Utah Valley State College was paid for by the bid and organizing committees.
He also said he received $700 a month for living expenses until last fall.
Sibandze's son, Sibou, reportedly received a bachelor's and master's degree in business from the U. He also was employed by Salt Lake City's economic development department.
The IOC report noted that one of the sons of Lamine Keita of Mali received more than $97,000 in support payments from the Salt Lake bid and organizing committee between August 1993 and February 1997.
The report said the payments, according to SLOC records, included subsidies for Keita's son's accommodations and living expenses, books, tuition and air fare while he attended Howard University.
Keita told IOC investigators a SLOC vice president, presumably former SLOC Senior Vice President of Games Dave Johnson, "helped him to obtain information on the conditions for his son to be admitted to the University of Utah."
But Keita said the financing was dealt with by the vice president without his knowledge. Keita said he should not be held responsible for his 26-year-old son's actions.
The IOC Executive Board suspended Keita from the IOC pending a vote of the full membership to expel him in March.
The other known scholarship recipient was Sonia Essomba, daughter of the late IOC member from Cameroon, Rene Essomba. Sonia attended American University in Washington, D.C.
A 1996 letter from Johnson detailing a $10,000-plus payment to Sonia Essomba that was leaked to the media last fall, sparking the scandal. The letter, which SLOC now says was fabricated, stated the payment would have to be her last.
The U. received two subpoenas from the Justice Department. The first, dated Jan. 19, focused on the Magvans, the Sibandzes, and Smirnov and Soukhorado. The second, dated Jan. 25, included a long list of IOC members and their families.
That list, possibly based on the files kept by the Salt Lake Bid Committee, included IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and nearly 70 other current and former IOC members.
The second subpoena also seeks information on treatment received at the Moran Eye Center as well as communications with a list of bid and organizing committee officials, including former Olympic boss Tom Welch.
As reported Thursday by the Deseret News, subpoenas were issued to BYU and Utah Valley State College. All schools have been given a Feb. 3 deadline to produce the records.
Unlike the U. directive from Justice Department investigators, neither UVSC nor BYU are required to hand over documents detailing communication with specific members of Salt Lake's bid and organizing committee.
Ryan Thomas, vice president for student services at Utah Valley State College, said the subpoena issued to the school focused on Suhel Attarabulsi, the son of the Libyan IOC member.
Federal regulations prohibit school officials from disclosing whose name was on the checks paying tuition for Attarabulsi. However, Thomas did say he did not recognize the name as anyone connected to the Salt Lake Olympic movement.
UVSC President Kerry D. Romesburg said he does not recall speaking to SLOC representatives about Attarabulsi's application to attend UVSC and subsequent enrollment.
Romesburg said he found out the UVSC student was tied to the swirling Olympic controversy when he read it in the newspaper.
BYU officials also are in "in the process" of gathering records detailing Attarabulsi's stay at the school's English Language Center, said Carri P. Jenkins, university spokeswoman.
Attarabulsi never applied to attend BYU. He did, though, take an intensive program for foreign students who need to pass a language competency test to enroll at a U.S. school. A $4,200 fee to attend the program were paid for by the Salt Lake Olympic officials, she said.
Deseret News staff writer Jeffrey P. Haney contributed to this report.