Ex-head of World Athletics Diack Gets Jail for Corruption
Court handed Diack
four-year prison sentence, two years of which are suspended, and fined him
almost $600,000.
Lamine
Diack, the former head of athletics' world governing body, has been sentenced
to two years in prison after he was convicted of corruption in a Russian doping
scandal.
Diack, 87, was found guilty on
Wednesday of taking bribes from athletes in return for orchestrating the
cover-up of test results that enabled them to continue competing, including in
the 2012 London Olympics.
Diack was also found guilty of
accepting money from Russia to help finance Macky Sall's 2012 presidential
campaign in Senegal, his home country, in exchange for slowing anti-doping
procedures, the court ruled.
The court had heard how Diack
solicited bribes totalling 3.45 million euros ($4.1m)...