Russia convicted of bribes for concealing doping cases of athletes

Former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamin Diak, a lawyer and one of the association’s doctors, are suspected of accepting bribes from the All-Russian Athletics Federation for concealing doping cases of Russian athletes.

On Wednesday, Deac and other suspects were arrested in France on corruption charges related to the IAAF anti-doping campaign, writes AP.

This is a bribe of at least 200 thousand euros.

On December 3, 2014, the German television channel ARD aired a documentary in which its author spoke about the systematic use of doping by Russian track and field athletes. The second part of the film was shown on December 7, and the third in August.

It claimed that the TV channel and the Sunday Times edition received the IAAF database, which contains more than 12 thousands of tests around 5 thousands of athletes from 2001 to 2012 a year. According to ARD and the Sunday Times, a third of the medals of the Olympic Games and world championships in endurance competitions during this period was won by athletes with suspicious doping test data.

Deacus led the IAAF from 1999 of the year, in August, he lost the presidency to the two-time Olympic champion in running 1500 meters to Briton Sebastian Coe. Coe was Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, but lost with the British against 92 votes against 115.

Previously "Forum" reported about the corruption scandal in the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA). 27 in May, a US court has formally charged nine FIFA officials and five company executives related to the organization’s activities on suspicion of corruption and money laundering.

Later in FIFA statedthat there are no legal grounds for depriving Russia and Qatar of the right to host the world championships in 2018 and 2022.