Lamine Diack behind IAAF corruption, says WADA commission report

ByReuters

Updated 14/01/2016 at 20:28 GMT

Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), was responsible for organising and enabling the conspiracy and corruption that took place in athletics' governing body, an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Thursday.

This file photo taken on August 21, 2015 shows outgoing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack gesturing during a press conference in Beijing, ahead of the 2015 IAAF World Championships

Image credit: AFP

The commission was delivering the second part of its report, whose first instalment in November led to the banning of Russia from athletics for state-sponsored doping.

Diack, who was replaced by Sebastian Coe as president last August, is under investigation by French police for corruption and was heavily criticised by the report.

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It said that Diack "sanctioned and appeared to have had personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes carried out by the actions of the illegitimate governance structure he put in place".

The report said the IAAF's governance process was inadequate to prevent corruption, and the checks and balances of good governance were missing.

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