PARIS, June 19 — Former global athletics supremo Lamine Diack should not be made a “scapegoat” in a corruption trial in which he stands accused of accepting bribes to cover up positive dope tests by Russian athletes, his defence lawyer pleaded on the last day of the trial in Paris. Simon...
Lamine Diack Diack, who led the International Association of Athletics Federations from 1999 to 2015, faces charges of 'giving and receiving bribes', 'breach of trust' and 'organised money laundering'.— AFP pic
The 87-year-old Senegalese is accused of delaying punishment for Russian athletes who failed doping tests in return for payment and in order to ensure that prospective sponsors were not discouraged.But another of Diack’s lawyers, William Bourdon, called yesterday for empathy should the judges get “carried away by the swell of the ‘judicially correct’” and find his client guilty.
Diack has told the court he agreed to delay bans for 23 Russian athletes, but denied he knew that officials from the body had directly or indirectly asked those athletes for hundreds of thousands of euros to hush up their cases. Diack’s son Papa Massata Diack, a former marketing consultant for the IAAF, is also on trial but he remains in Senegal where the authorities refuse to hand him over to French authorities.“We must admit things,” Ndiaye said. “But it is not criminal.”
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