The former president of the 1999 to 2015 International Athletics Federation was found guilty of passive corruption for the payment of bribes by Russian athletes.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
Lamine Diack, former boss of world athletics sentenced last year for corruption, died on Friday, December 3rd at his home in Senegal, said his son. Lamine Diack led the International Federation of Athletics between 1999 and 2015.
Lamine Diack had returned to Senegal in May, for the first time since her indictment in 2015. He had been selected in France for years due to an alleged corruption case around Doping in Russia.
Condemned in September 2020
He had been sentenced on September 16, 2020 in Paris, in particular for hiding cases of doping in Russia or delayed with sanctions against Russian athletes doped in exchange for financing and to promote sponsorship and dissemination negotiations with Russia. .
His indictment in another case, still not judged, had prevented him from returning to Senegal. He had been confiscated his passport in the context of judicial review imposed by the judges.
In this second file, Mr. Diack had been indicted since March 27, 2019, still for corruption, as part of the Attributions of the Jo-2016 in Rio and 2020 in Tokyo, but also in the allocation processes. Beijing World Athletics in 2015, then the 2017 and 2019 Worlds, for which Qatar was a candidate.
The investigative judge had, before his return, in May, lifted his prohibition from leaving the French territory against the payment of a deposit of 500,000 euros corresponding to the fine incurred, and provided that he continues to respond to judicial convocations.
A deemed Senegalese football club, the Jaraaf of Dakar (first division), had sold a part of its land asset to pay the deposit. Lamine Diack was twice president of Jaraaf, in the 1970s and 2000s.