Claudio Marinelli

Role

Project Manager

Organization

INTERPOL, Integrity in Sport Team

Claudio Marinelli is a Criminal Intelligence Officer for the Integrity in Sports Team at the General Secretariat of INTERPOL in Lyon (France), where he is the Project Manager of the INTERPOL Match-Fixing Task Force, a worldwide network of investigators dealing with manipulation of sport competitions.

Marinelli is a financial investigator from the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), seconded from Italy. Prior to joining INTERPOL, he was dealing with criminal and financial investigations at the International Police Cooperation Service in Italy, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Rome. With strong experience in international match-fixing cases and fluency in four languages, he was appointed as National Point of Contact for the INTERPOL and EUROPOL match-fixing police cooperation platforms and as Expert for the Italian Presidency of the Council of Minister – Office for Sport, upon decree of the Head of Police and the General Director of Public Security.

Marinelli has been responsible for the organisation, both at domestic and international levels, of several workshops and seminars, as trainer/speaker in a wide range of topics related to match-fixing, financial investigation and asset recovery, and he is the author of several books.

He is a graduate of economy and companies legislation and specialised at the Economic and Financial Superior School of Guardia di Finanza.

The speakers

Using the unique power of sport to bring people together, the Olympism in Action Forum saw a range of global players, including Olympic Movement stakeholders, athletes, private and public sector leaders, NGO representatives, academics, artists and the media come together to talk on topical contemporary issues. Chosen because of their ability to effect change and their wide range of sometimes differing opinions, the speakers led lively debates and seeked to challenge received wisdom to inspire new ways of thinking.