"President Schormann signed agreements, under his signature only and without consultation with me or the EB, to sell Upgrade Cards and UIPM Accreditations to different persons and entities."
John Helmick, UIPM Treasurer, 15 August 2024
ESTORIL. UIPM lawyers are already interested in my reporting. So I have to be even more careful and thorough. You know: it's an occupational hazard of a journalist, especially of a freelance investigative journalist. You can do the best work of your life – and yet you make a few minor spelling mistakes or, even more annoying, some uninformed judge will find a word and interpretes it differently than it is in the dictionary.
I experienced this with FIFA 20 years ago. I had truthfully reported that there had been a house search at FIFA, it was about the gigantic ISL bribery system (more than 140 million Swiss francs for officials from the IOC, FIFA, IAAF, FINA, etc. pp), and reported that FIFA had hidden this raid. The reporting corresponded to the facts and the definition of the word ‘conceal’. But, the judge interpreted it differently. It was a purely semantic discussion in which I was not allowed to participate – the judge forbade me to speak in court. It was, after all, only a so-called press chamber of a court, where strange rules apply.
And yet semantic debates are so important.
In any case, there was a counterstatement because of the word ‘conceal’, but it didn't matter, because our research into the ISL bribery system was confirmed after many, many years in a criminal court in Zug. As a result, the IOC doyen and severely corrupt Brazilian João Havelange had to resign from the IOC.
So today is another little semantic exercise - together with you.
The day before yesterday, I presented an exclusive and truly dubious alleged sponsorship contract that the UIPM monarch Klaus Schormann had signed with a strange company from Monaco (Sirius) and with a company owner who, as an athlete, had taken steroids and, at the time of signing the contract, had been convicted of tax fraud. Shortly after signing the contract, a prison sentence was handed down against the UIPM sponsor:
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I presented the entire contract and argued that this strange document is not a real sponsorship contract, but that this paper is basically selling Olympic accreditations of the very best category (including the so-called upgrade cards with access to all venues and sports).
As UIPM treasurer John Helmick has put it in an email to the Executive Board, including IOC presidential candidate Juan Antonio Samaranch, and general secretary Shiny Fang on 15 August 2024:
Re: EB briefing - forged upgrade card case descriptions
President Schormann signed agreements, under his signature only and without consultation with me or the EB, to sell Upgrade Cards and UIPM Accreditations to different persons and entities.
On July 15, 2024, I filed an Ethics Complaint against President Schormann. This complaint was filed with the Secretary General and the 1st VP. To date, no Disciplinary Panel has been created to investigate this Ethics Complaint.
Read more about the Ethics Complaint:
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Since Klaus Schormann signed the Sirius contracts, who apparently also initiated this and other such contracts on his own, it is fair to say, without resorting to semantic hair-splitting, that Schormann is trading in Olympic accreditations and upgrade cards?
Is that how it can/should be formulated?
The long-standing UIPM treasurer John Helmick wrote:
"Schormann signed aggreements… to sell Upgrade Cards and UIPM Accreditations to different persons and entities".
One day later, Schormann responded.
Here is his complete email:
