MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US swimmer Ryan Lochte earlier alleged that he and three other Olympic swimmers, including Feigen, were robbed at gunpoint by people claiming to be police officers. On Thursday, Brazilian Chief of Civil Police Fernando Veloso said that the US Olympic swimmers’ claims about being robbed in Rio had proven to be false.
According to the ABC News, Feigan’s lawyer Breno Melaragno Costa announced that the athlete would pay the sum to Reaction Institute charity after a four-hour conversation with public prosecutors at a police station on Thursday.
On Thursday, Brazilian police said the swimmers were not robbed by law enforcement offers but instead were detained after vandalizing a bathroom at a gas station while drunk. Security camera footage reportedly showed a police officer drawing his weapon after the four US swimmers tried to leave the scene.
While Lochte reportedly left Brazil before a judge issued an order to seize the passports of the four swimmers, two other swimmers — Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz — were pulled off a flight from Rio de Janeiro to the United States on Wednesday amid an investigation into the alleged robbery.
In a statement issued later on Thursday, the US Olympic Committee (USOC) apologized for the actions of the US Olympic swimmers, acknowledging that they had not in fact been robbed.
