- Offer to delay sanctions against 23 athletes, say prosecutors
- Diack denies allegations to be made as trial begins in Paris
Lamine Diack, the former president of the governing body of world athletics, offered a deal to delay doping sanctions against 23 Russian athletes in exchange for $1.5m in funding to help a friend win the 2012 Senegalese presidential election, French investigators are due to claim in court on Monday.
The allegation will form the basis of the trial on corruption charges of six former senior figures at the International Association of Athletics Federations, including Diack and his son Papa Massata Diack, that will begin in Paris. Papa Massata Diack told the Guardian last week the allegation is false.
Written by Sean Ingle
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