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Associated Press

Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of world athletics, has died, his family said Friday. He was 88.
“Yes, I confirm. My uncle Lamine Diack passed away Thursday to Friday night,” Awa Diack, niece of the former world athletics boss, said.
Diack was president of the IAAF, now World Athletics, from 1999 to 2015 after holding several political positions in Senegal.
Diack was sentenced to four years in prison for covering up the payment of bribes by Russian athletes involved in doping cases and the financing by Russia of political campaigns in Senegal.
In May, Diack returned home to Senegal from France, where he had been under house arrest, after a local soccer club paid a bond of just over $600,000 to allow him to leave.

Diack was convicted in Paris in September 2020 on multiple charges of corruption during his tenure, some of it related to the Russian doping scandal.
His conviction in France last year marked a spectacular fall from grace for a man who was head of the IAAF for nearly two decades and was an influential figure in the world of Olympic sports.
Diack was found guilty of being part of a scheme that squeezed 3.2 million euros ($3.8 million) in bribes out of Russian athletes suspected of doping. The hush money allowed the athletes, who should have been suspended, to keep competing. Diack was also found guilty on breach of trust charges but acquitted of money laundering.
His son, Papa Massata Diack, who worked as an IAAF marketing consultant, was also convicted and was sentenced to five years in jail in his absence. The judge said $15 million was funnelled to the younger Diack’s companies from various contracts negotiated by the IAAF while his father was in charge.


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Former controversial world athletics chief Lamine Diack who covered up Russian bribe scandal dies, aged 88

Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of the International Athletics Federation, has died, his family said Friday. He was 88. Photo: AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Lamine Diack arrives at the Paris courthouse, on January 13, 2020. Photo: AP Photo/Thibault Camus

Doping report: Corruption ‘embedded’ in IAAF with Lamine Diack running fiefdom  

epa05101710 (FILE) A file picture dated 14 August 2009 of Lamine Diack, President of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), during a press conference on a joint meeting of IOC and IAAF in Berlin, Germany. Former IAAF president Lamine Diack was responsible for the corruption at the ruling athletics body and his successor Sebastian Coe must also have been aware of the schemes and doping practices in Russia, according to an anticipated report presented by by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 14 January 2016. EPA/RAINER JENSEN *** Local Caption *** 52362287

epa05101711 (FILE) A file picture dated 10 August 2013 of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and then IAAF President Lamine Diack casting a shadow as they watch the opening ceremony for the 14th IAAF World Championships at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia. Former IAAF president Lamine Diack was responsible for the corruption at the ruling athletics body and his successor Sebastian Coe must also have been aware of the schemes and doping practices in Russia, according to an anticipated report presented by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 14 January 2016. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY *** Local Caption *** 52362429

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 file photo, Liliya Shobukhova from Russia responds to a question during a news conference of elite runners participating in the Chicago Marathon, in Chicago. The son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack and two Russian officials were banned from track and field for life on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2015 for engaging in blackmail, bribery and extortion to cover up a Russian doping case. The sanctions centered on the case of Russian marathoner Liliya Shobukhova, who was allegedly extorted out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid a doping ban before the 2012 London Olympics. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo current president of the IAAF Sebastian Coe, left, with then president of the IAAF Lamine Diack look at a map of the site of the London 2012 Olympics in London. Pound’s commission found that former IAAF president Diack ``was responsible for organizing and enabling the conspiracy and corruption” that took place as the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA announced Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, file)

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2013 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and IAAF President Lamine Diack attend the opening ceremony for the World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The leader of track's governing body told a lawyer he'd need to cut a deal with Putin to ensure nine Russian athletes accused of doping wouldn't compete at 2013 world championships in Moscow, according to a new report on the scandal that reached the top of the sport and country. (Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA-Novosti, Presidential Press Service, File)

World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) former president, Dick Pound (C), who heads the commission into corruption and doping in athletics, and commission members Richard McLaren (L) and Guenter Younger (2R), address a news conference in Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany, January 14, 2016. Corruption within the world athletics body IAAF was not a result of renegade individuals' actions but was embedded in the organisation, the head of an independent commission on doping in athletics will say in his report on Thursday, according to the media. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) former president, Dick Pound, who heads the commission into corruption and doping in athletics, gestures at a news conference in Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany, January 14, 2016. Corruption within the world athletics body IAAF was not a result of renegade individuals' actions but was embedded in the organisation, the head of an independent commission on doping in athletics will say in his report on Thursday, according to the media. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

Wada’s second report accuses former IAAF preisdent Lamine Diack of being responsible for the corruption at the ruling athletics body. Photo: EPA

Former athletics boss Lamine Diack faces new corruption charges

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 21, 2015 shows outgoing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack gesturing during a press conference in Beijing, ahead of the 2015 IAAF World Championships. French investigators on December 21, 2015 hit former IAAF president Lamine Diack with new corruption charges linked to doping cover-ups in world athletics, a source close to the inquiry told AFP. / AFP / Greg Baker

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows IAAF president Sebastian Coe giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of MPs in a meeting room at the Houses of Parliament on December 2, 2015 on the subject of blood doping in athletics. Sebastian Coe has vowed to guide the IAAF "back to trust" after a series of corruption and doping scandals that has seen global athletics crash into its darkest ever days. The IAAF, acting on a bombshell report by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), last month banned Russia from all international competition because of what it called systematic state-sponsored doping of its athletes. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / PRU " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - NO RESALE - NO DISTRIBUTION TO THIRD PARTIES - 24 HOURS USE - NO ARCHIVES

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack is now accused of “active corruption”, which generally involves offering bribes. Photo: AFP

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Diack was president of the IAAF, now World Athletics, from 1999 to 2015 after holding several political positions in Senegal
He was sentenced to four years in prison for covering up the payment of bribes by Russian athletes involved in doping cases



Diack was sentenced to four years in prison for covering up the payment of bribes by Russian athletes involved in doping cases.


Former controversial world athletics chief Lamine Diack who covered up Russian bribe scandal dies, aged 88

Diack was president of the IAAF, now World Athletics, from 1999 to 2015 after holding several political positions in Senegal He was sentenced to four years in prison for covering up the payment of bribes by Russian athletes involved in doping cases

Diack was president of the IAAF, now World Athletics, from 1999 to 2015 after holding several political positions in Senegal

He was sentenced to four years in prison for covering up the payment of bribes by Russian athletes involved in doping cases