The world athletics governing body (IAAF) has closed an ethics investigation into its president Sebastian Coe over allegations that he provided misleading answers to a British parliamentary committee in 2015. The IAAF's ethics board said, following a six-month investigation, that it had found there was no basis on which "any disciplinary case could be established that Lord Coe intentionally misled the Parliamentary Committee." "The investigation has therefore not identified evidence of a potential breach of the code of ethics by Lord Coe," it said. The IAAF's ethics board then opened an investigation in September into whether Coe's conduct had violated its own regulations. Although Coe confirmed receiving the email, he said he forwarded it to the IAAF ethics board without reading the attachments.

Source: The Star April 11, 2019 21:00 UTC