Lamine Diack
Lamine Diack (born 7 June 1933 in Dakar, Senegal) was the Chairman of the Board of the National Water Company "Société Nationale des Eaux" of Senegal (SONES) from 1995 to 2001. He became president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on 8 November 1999, and was re-elected for his fourth and final four-year term on 16 October 2011.[1] He is the subject of many investigations into corruption during his tenure as president of the IAAF. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Athlete
Diack was a champion long jumper in the late 1950s, winning the event at the 1958 French Athletics Championships and holding the French/West African record from 1957 to 1960.
Investigations into corruption
The ethics committee of the IOC conducted a year long investigation into claims that Diack received bribes from the bankrupt sports marketing company International Sport and Leisure.[2] Diack had received three payments of $30,000 and 30,000 French francs in 1993. Diack had personally received the cash payments from ISL at a time when the company was in negotiations with the IAAF to sign a marketing contract. The IOC described Diack as having "placed himself in a conflict of interest situation".[3]
Diack claimed that he received the money from supporters after his house burned down.[3] Diack was warned for his behaviour, with the fact that he was not a member of IOC at the time of the wrongdoing considered a mitigating factor.[3]
On 1 November 2015, Lamine Diack and several other top IAAF officials were arrested in France and are being investigated over allegations he took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats.[4][5] The IOC provisionally suspended Diack on November 10, 2015[6] and he resigned on the following day.[7]
On 14 January 2016, Part 2 of the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency's Independent Commission investigation into doping, which includes examination of the criminal side of the inquiry, reported that with his influence,[8] Lamine Diack was able to install one of his sons as an employee of the IAAF, contract another son as a consultant and contract a friend as Presidential legal adviser and that he thereby created a group which functioned "as an informal illegitimate governance structure outside the formal IAAF governance structure".[8] The report goes on to say:[8]
"Lamine Diack was responsible for organizing and enabling the conspiracy and corruption that took place in the IAAF. He sanctioned and appears to have had personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes carried out by the actions of the informal illegitimate governance structure he put in place."
References
- ↑ IAAF Congress Day 1 – Daegu 2011: ELECTION RESULTS, 24 Aug – update! IAAF. 24 August 2011
- ↑ "IAAF president Lamine Diack laughs off bribery investigation". The Guardian. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Hayatou, Diack escape serious punishment over ISL payments". Reuters. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ "Lamine Diack: Ex-athletics chief investigated in corruption inquiry". BBC News. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ↑ Athlétisme : le Sénégalais Lamine Diack et ses fils soupçonnés d’être au centre d’un réseau de corruption, Jeune Afrique, 2015-11-05.
- ↑ "IOC provisionally suspends Lamine Diack". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- ↑ "Former IAAF president Lamine Diack resigns as honorary IOC member". The Guardian. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- 1 2 3 "THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION REPORT #2 (page 10)" (PDF). World Anti-Doping Agency. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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Preceded by Primo Nebiolo |
Presidents of the IAAF 1999–2015 |
Succeeded by Sebastian Coe |
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