Korean official resigns from IOC

South Korean official Kim Un-yong

Jailed IOC vice-president Kim Un-yong has resigned from the Olympic movement.

The 74-year-old Kim is currently serving a two-year prison sentence on corruption charges in South Korea.

Kim was convicted of embezzling more than $3m from sports organisations and accepting $700,000 in bribes and was facing an expulsion vote in July.

Kim, runner-up to Jacques Rogge in the 2001 IOC presidential election, was suspended by the International Olympic Committee last year.

Kim tendered his resignation in a letter to IOC president Rogge.

"The IOC executive board recognised Mr Kim's resignation, which thereby ends the expulsion procedure," the IOC said in a statement.

Rogge advocates a "zero-tolerance" policy on ethical misconduct.

Kim has maintained his innocence and called the charges politically motivated.

Kim was a dominant figure in Korean sport for more than three decades and was credited with bringing the Olympics to South Korea in 1988.

But he was among IOC members implicated in a corruption scandal leading up to Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Olympics.

The IOC had also proposed the expulsion of Bulgarian member Ivan Slavkov who was implicated by a BBC documentary on alleged corruption in the host city bidding process.