(ATR) The son of missing Yugoslavian sports leader Artur Takac is offering a 10,000 euro reward for information that helps find Takac, a confidant of former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Takac, who would now be 87, disappeared in February while on a solo ski outing on Serbiaâ??s highest mountain. No trace of him has been found since, even with the spring thaw, when police suspected they might find his remains.
Takac was legendary for his work with athletics and helped organize the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo.
His son Goran is quoted in a Balkan newspaper this weekend saying he wants the mystery solved.
â??We, the relatives of my father, want to find his remains so that we may bid him farewell,â? he says.
Goran Takac is one of four so-called agents declared persona non gratis by the IOC in August as a result of a BBC documentary. The program â??Buying the Gamesâ? showed Takac and three other agents on video tape purporting to be able to trade the votes of IOC members in the election of the 2012 host city.
Goran Takac has said that his troubles with the IOC have nothing to do with his fatherâ??s disappearance.
Sources in Serbia contacted by Around the Rings in recent months say they have heard nothing about the elder Takac.
Some wild rumors have said that Takac was murdered or kidnapped, but evidence of foul play is absent.
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