• Son faces charges along with four others
The long-awaited corruption trial of the former IAAF president Lamine Diack has been delayed until June after new documents were presented at the last minute by his son and co-defendant Papa Massata Diack.
The Diacks, along with four other former senior figures in athletics, are accused of being part of a scheme that involved extorting 23 Russian athletes for between €100,000 and €600,000 in exchange for delaying doping sanctions so they could compete at the London 2012 Olympics.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/13/trial-of-lamine-diack-delayed-iaaf-papa-massata-diack under the title “Trial of Lamine Diack put back after presentation of new documents”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
