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TOKYO SEPPEY ACCUSES ACOSTA Ruben Acosta denounced for dictatorship and electoral fraud (Tokyo 23rd October 2006) Jean-Pierre Seppey, Swiss and Italian citizen, former FIVB General Manager, candidate to the FIVB Presidency since march 2003, accompanied by Japanese sport friends, partners and by many members of the FIABVB (International Federation of Beach Volleyball and Volleyball Associations) in founding process, gave today in Tokyo a press conference and declared that they have denounced to the IOC and to the jurisdictional courts of the canton de Vaud, Ruben Acosta, the FIVB President and his accomplices of the Board of Administration for having violated the universal democratic principles, notably guaranteed by the IOC Charter and the Swiss law, in having refused Mr. Seppey’s candidature to the FIVB Presidency and that of Mr. Goijman, Argentinean and former FIVB Board member, to the FIVB Board of Administration. Acosta, has been in office since 1984, and after this 22 years he still will manipulate and threaten of suspension and expulsion the FIVB congress members, actually present in Tokyo, if they will not elect him for another period until 2010, whereas he is sick and no more able to lead the world Volleyball. The new preconditions adopted by himself for being candidate to the presidency (10 years in the Board, presence in the last 5 Congresses etc.), are antidemocratic rules to forbid any other candidate than Ruben Acosta, and then violate the IOC Charter, the ethical principles and the universal law. Notwithstanding the FIVB is a non profit organization, the main target of the Acosta couple, is to accumulate fortune (around USD 25mios), and to take personal advantage of it. In the actual FIVB, almost nothing is invested in helping the development of the less privileged national federations. The FIVB and the couple Acosta regime and maneuvers, which are comparable with Pyong Yang and the dictator Kim Jong ones, must be sanctioned. More than 95 employees had been fired or made resign by the reigning couple; for not fulfilling their minimal desires, most of the times oriented to personal questions, and not to the Volleyball main interests. Acosta had to resign to the IOC membership, in May 2004, immediately after the Decision D/02/04 from the IOC Ethic’s Commission, which sanctioned him, for the misuse of the IOC funds in order to finance his commissions, and a warning to the FIVB, about the sponsors’ acquisition’s commissions. In the Lausanne environment, in the Olympic movement and in the International Press, the image of the Acostas is linked to corruption and abuses. For information : info@fiabvb.org |