IAAF president Lamine Diack speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2015 World ChampionshipsPARIS - French prosecutors have recommended that the former head of athletics' governing body IAAF, Lamine Diack, and his son stand trial for allegedly delaying doping sanctions against Russia in return for payment, sources told AFP Monday. The prosecutors want five other people, including Diack's son Papa Massata Diack, a former marketing consultant to the IAAF, to stand trial. Lamine Diack, from Senegal, has been questioned by prosecutors in France on several occasions. The French investigation began in 2015 when Britain's Sebastian Coe took over from Diack as IAAF president. Prosecutors allege that Lamine Diack, now aged 85, was prepared to accept funding for political campaigns in Senegal in return for lenient treatment by IAAF anti-doping officials of Russian athletes.

Source: Bangkok Post May 20, 2019 12:45 UTC