Olympic chief Jacques Rogge has said that the IOC’s ethics body needs evidence from the BBC to carry out its inquiry into senior sports officials after allegations of corruption at FIFA.

“I’m not privy to the decisions of the ethics commission, but I believe that the BBC, under the condition that the identity of the sources would be preserved, would be willing to give information,” Rogge told journalists.

“We need that information; without information we can only rely on what you (the media) write,” the International Olympic Committee president said.

The IOC told its ethics commission last month to examine evidence from a BBC programme that targeted three senior executive officials at world football’s governing body during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

They included African football chief Issa Hayatou, who became a member of the IOC in 2001, and other members of FIFA’s executive committee – Ricardo Teixeira of Brazil and South America’s Nicolas Leoz.

They were alleged to have received secret payments from TV rights marketing firm ISMM/ISL more than a decade ago before it went bankrupt.