Former head of global athletics Lamine Diack has been found guilty of corruption in covering up the Russian doping scandal and accepting money to finance 2012 Senegal elections
Former global athletics chief Lamine Diack arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, to hear the verdict in his corruption trial along with four other defendants over Russian doping charges. September 16, 2020.
The former head of world athletics' governing body, Lamine Diack, has been convicted in France of corruption in a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail. The guilty verdict in a Paris court represented a spectacular fall from grace for the 87-year-old Diack, who was the powerful head offrom 1999-2015. The court also sentenced Diack to another two years of suspended jail time and fined him $590,000 .
Diack was found guilty of multiple corruption charges and of breach of trust but acquitted of a money laundering charge. Diack was found guilty of accepting bribes from athletes suspected of doping to cover up test results and let them continue competing, including in the
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