BUDAPEST, Hungary — Despite fresh bribery allegations on top of long-standing accusations of wrongdoing, Kuwaiti official Husain al-Musallam was re-elected for another term as senior vice-president of FINA on Saturday. The OCA and the committee of FINA, the committee that investigates, they did an investigation and there was no wrongdoing on anything,” al-Musallam told the AP. The 57-year-old Kuwaiti said there was no rift with LEN, despite Barelli’s frustration that he had been allowed to run unopposed amid the allegations. FINA doesn’t have any (mechanism) to protect themselves from the possibility that something really happened,” Barelli said. Al-Musallam was also allowed to go for re-election despite the Kuwaiti swimming federation being suspended since October 2015.

Source: National Post July 22, 2017 13:59 UTC