Updated 12.49
ATHLETICS GOVERNING BODY (the IAAF) has confirmed that French police are investigating misconduct involving its doping regulations.
The IAAF released a statement after French prosecutors said they had charged former federation president Lamine Diack for corruption and money laundering and conspiracy.
Sources said the 82-year-old was suspected of covering up doping cases. An advisor to Diack has also been charged and a doctor involved in IAAF anti-doping efforts is in custody in France, the sources said.
The IAAF said that after the World Anti-Doping Agency had passed on information “emanating from separate ongoing investigations by WADA’s independent commission and the IAAF’s own independent Ethics Commission into allegations surrounding its anti-doping rules and regulations, a French police investigation has now commenced.
“The IAAF is fully cooperating with all investigations as it has been from the beginning of the process,” said a statement.
Diack, 82, was head of world athletics’ governing body from 1999 until August this year when England’s Sebastian Coe took over the reins.
Originally published 10.43
