Lamine Diack, the previous president of the world governing physique for monitor and area, who was convicted final yr of corruption for receiving bribes linked to a Russian doping scandal, died at his house on Friday in Senegal. He was 88.
His dying was confirmed by his son, Papa Massata Diack.
Mr. Diack was for many years one of the vital highly effective males in sports activities as a member of the International Olympic Committee and because the head of the International Association of Athletics Federations, extra generally recognized by its initials, the I.A.A.F., which he headed from 1999 to 2015.
In November 2015, Mr. Diack’s legacy turned mired in shame after he was detained in France over accusations that he had accepted greater than $1 million in bribes from the Russian athletics federation in 2011.
According to French prosectors, the bribes have been paid to cowl up the constructive doping exams of Russian athletes, a few of whom competed on the 2012 London Olympics.
Mr. Diack’s son, who labored for his father as a sports activities official, and different I.A.A.F. officers have been additionally accused of collaborating in considered one of largest corruption schemes ever in international sports activities.
In September 2020, Mr. Diack was discovered responsible of corruption and sentenced to 4 years in jail, two of them suspended.
