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As corruption in sports has become big business...and authorities are seeking to crack down as anti-corruption in sport is being observed this week...

And one man at the fore front of the battle is Canon secretary general Brian Lewis who wants corruption in sport to be wiped out...



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00:00On Monday December 9th the focus was on International Anti-Corruption Day. It's
00:05also the third consecutive year that the Sport Integrity Global Alliance
00:09Anti-Corruption Week is being held. The dates being December 9th to the 15th.
00:13Immediate past president of the TTOC Brian Lewis says more must be done to
00:18eradicate corruption in sport. There must be a strict policy on anti-corruption
00:26anti-fraud and anti-bribery in sport not just locally or in the Caribbean or the
00:35Americas but globally. Corruption in sport and the increasing infiltration of
00:44sport by the criminal elements and the criminal entities is a serious threat to
00:55the integrity of sport. It's often said money is the root of all evil. How true
01:01is that? While that is debatable many in the sporting world be it administrators
01:06or athletes have tarnished their names because of their actions and once again
01:10Lewis is peeved as a result. There must be an insistence on financial
01:18transparency and accountability financial accountability and financial
01:24integrity. We have to be intolerant and you know there are too many things that
01:33quote-unquote slips between the cracks and there are too many things that are
01:39allowed to pass. Lewis is the Secretary General of the Caribbean Association of
01:44National Olympic Committees also known as CANOC. CANOC is also a member of the
01:48Sport Integrity Global Alliance. You know CANOC's commitment to anti-corruption in
01:55sport and anti-corruption in the Caribbean Olympic movement is evident.
02:02There must so ever be the will or the political will so to speak from the
02:08sport leaders to really have the courage and the commitment to insist on strict
02:18policies in relation to anti-corruption in sport. Speaking of which Lewis is also
02:23the co-chairman of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance also known as SIGA.
02:27Fenod Nawani, Chiefs Export.
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