After FIFA, IAAF. A new international sporting body interested in justice. This time it is not about football, but the blow is hard for the International Athletics Federation. The announcement Wednesday morning the indictment of the former IAAF President Lamine Diack, for accepting bribes and aggravated laundering, and its legal counsel Habib Cissé, for accepting bribes by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke followed of that Wednesday night, Gabrielle Dollé, head of anti-doping at the IAAF until the end of 2014, for passive corruption, weakens the credibility of the fight against doping conducted by the federation. The three men were left free, under judicial supervision.
i-TV channel, which revealed Wednesday, November 4th the first two indictments and search Tuesday to IAAF headquarters in Monaco says Mr. Diack and Mr. Cissé “are believed to have received money from the Russian Athletics Federation to hide doping case of Russian athletes’ . According to AP, investigators suspect Diack to have affected at least 200,000 euros to cover these facts. In a statement, the International Federation has confirmed the search of his premises and indicated that Monaco would “no further comment at this time” .
The Russian Federation would have covered the facts of doping
The national financial prosecutor’s office opened an investigation after receiving early August, a report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). To understand this issue, one must go back several months back at the end of 2014. On December 3, the daily sports newspaper The Team and the German ARD reveal that internal investigation was opened to the IAAF. The reason: the Russian Federation (ARAF) would have covered the facts of doping. According to a sports agent, Andrey Baranov, ARAF has asked for money to the marathoner Liliya Shobukhova to mask the abnormal data from his biological passport.
The ARAF had asked the athlete to pay 450,000 euros in order to align with the London Games in 2012. Finally two years suspended in April 2014 because of abnormal data in his biological passport, Shobukhova was then sought and obtained partly repaid the money by through a company in Singapore, Black Tidings. A company owned by an employee of Papa Diack Massata son of Lamine Diack, who has given the reins of the IAAF to Sebastian Coe in August, after almost sixteen years as president.
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Inquiry
Following these revelations, Papa Diack s Massata ‘was removed from his duties at the IAAF in December. The President of the Russian Federation, Valentin Balakhnichev, had also resigned as treasurer in the same period. In early January, WADA has set up a commission of inquiry to verify the facts reported by the German ARD.
August 24, 2015, in the World Championships in Beijing, has seen its Liliya Shobukhova sanction reduced by WADA. The Russian would it have been rewarded for his cooperation? In a statement, the Agency recognizes implicitly: “The AMA believes that the information provided by Ms. Shobukhova are of significant importance to clean sport. “
The International Federation suspected of laxity
The International Federation has been facing for several months to lax suspicions of doping. In early August, the German channel ARD and the British weekly Sunday Times reported a list of more than twelve thousand blood tests – some suspects – made on more than five thousand athletes from 2001 and 2012. doping issues experts had estimated that about eight hundred athletes showed values “suspicious or highly suspicious” . Information “sensationalist and misleading” , according to IAAF
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M. Coe hopes will create an independent anti-doping agency. In World in April, Britain, vice president of the 2007 IAAF in August 2015, stated: “We must ensure respect for the independence of controls. It is necessary that the national federations such as the International Federation are clear of this responsibility. (…) This would eliminate possible conflicts of interest. “ The annual Gala IAAF scheduled November 28 in Monaco, looks agitated.
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