PARIS — The chief executive officer of media group beIN was handed preliminary charges of corruption as part of an investigation into the bidding process for the 2017 and 2019 track world championships, a judicial official said Wednesday. The official said Yousef Al-Obaidly was indicted on March 28 and also said former IAAF president Lamine Diack was handed preliminary charges of “passive corruption” in the same case. “The allegations raised are not only utterly baseless and unsubstantiated, but they have been - quite remarkably - leaked to the media. No, it was not corruption, but a risk we evaluated.”Pamodzi was founded by one of Diack’s sons, Papa Massata Diack. According to Le Monde, Lamine Diack is suspected of favoring the Qatari bid in exchange of money transferred to his son’s company.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 09:21 UTC