Wannabe Olympic MMA group tried gifting $82,000 cognac to Brisbane Games committee
- An upstart mixed-martial arts association headed by a Singaporean rich-lister has lavished incredibly priced alcohol, including an $82,000 bottle of cognac, on Brisbane's key Olympic decision-making body.
- The gifts are so exorbitant the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has not kept them, even handing into Customs another two bottles of wine worth $20,000 rather than pay the import duties.
- The largesse, revealed exclusively by the ABC today, is part of a wider series of examples of attempted influence-peddling and relationship-building from businesses and sp
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- An upstart mixed-martial arts association headed by a Singaporean rich-lister has lavished incredibly priced alcohol, including an $82,000 bottle of cognac, on Brisbane's key Olympic decision-making body.
- The gifts are so exorbitant the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has not kept them, even handing into Customs another two bottles of wine worth $20,000 rather than pay the import duties.
- The largesse, revealed exclusively by the ABC today, is part of a wider series of examples of attempted influence-peddling and relationship-building from businesses and sp
Sources: ABC Australia