This file photo taken on November 12, 2011, in Monaco shows IAAF President Lamine Diack speaking during a press conference prior to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) gala. Senegalese former IAAF president Lamine Diack, 82, was charged on November 4, 2015, in Paris with corruption relating to the International Association of Athletics Federation's anti-doping campaign, legal sources said. Diack, the Senegalese who was in charge of the International Association of Athletics Federations (now World Athletics), between 1999 and 2015, is charged with “giving and receiving bribes”, “breach of trust” and “organised money laundering”, and is expected to attend court. The aim, prosecutors will say, was to allow the Russians to compete in the 2012 London Olympics and the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. Also appearing in court will be Habib Cisse, Diack’s former legal advisor, who is suspected of having acted as an intermediary between the then-IAAF and Russian athletics.

Source: Standard Digital June 07, 2020 20:36 UTC