The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Saturday announced that Bulgarian IOC member Ivan Slatkov has been suspended from the organization and will be banned from the Olympic Games in Athens. The IOC said that Slatkov, who also heads the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, as well as the Bulgarian Football Association, was suspended by the IOC executive committee after being implicated in a votes-for-cash scandal that became public recently. A British television station broadcast a programme in which they said that agents could influence the outcome of the vote for the host of the 2012 Games by buying votes. Slatkov, 64, was implicated in the scandal and on Saturday was suspended from the IOC and was banned from being a member of the Bulgarian delegation in Athens.