Police officers from the Directorate for Investigation of Economic Crime have seized documents on Friday from the Romanian Olympic Committee (COSR) and have conducted searches at the company that supplied sportswear to the Romanian athletes competing at the Olympic Games in Rio, who have complained that it was counterfeit and of bad quality.
IGPR informs in a press release that the first searches have revealed that the company allegedly concluded and implemented contractual relationships with contracting authorities in the field of sport, supplying sportswear suspected of being counterfeit.
Several athletes and coaches from the Romanian Olympic team complained of the poor quality of the official sportswear of the delegation.
They mostly complain about the official Kappa t-shirts, blouses and track suits that they wear all the time, when they go to the warming-up, in the competition halls or in the Olympic village.
Journalist Catalin Tolontan’s investigation revealed that the company that supplied the sportswear to the Romanian athletes competing in Rio Olympics is Pax Creative Sports Ltd, and the contract value of EUR 130,000.
It’s about T-shirts, caps, sneakers, backpacks and travel bags. “The products must be unicoloured or to have colour combinations, provided their assortment to create an aesthetic image, representative, unitary,” the contract no. 170351/22.06.2016 reads.
The contract is worth RON 571,032 (some EUR 130,000) for 148 to 168 sets, i.e. around EUR 800 per set.