Lamine Diack was a Senegalese businessman, sports administrator, and athlete.
16 Facts About Lamine Diack
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Lamine Diack was president of the International Association of Athletics Federations from 1999 to 2015.
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Lamine Diack was the subject of numerous investigations into corruption during his tenure as president.
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Lamine Diack was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1999 to 2013, then an honorary member from 2014 to 2015, and the chairman of the National Water Company "Societe Nationale des Eaux" of Senegal from 1995 to 2001.
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Lamine Diack had been under house arrest from November 2015, and his trial in France started in June 2020.
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Lamine Diack became president of the International Association of Athletics Federations on 8 November 1999, and was re-elected for his fourth and final four-year term on 16 October 2011.
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Lamine Diack was a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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In 2011 the ethics committee of the IOC conducted a year long investigation into claims that Lamine Diack had received bribes from the bankrupt sports marketing company International Sport and Leisure.
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Lamine Diack received three payments in 1993 from ISL at a time when the company was in negotiations with the IAAF to sign a marketing contract.
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The IOC described Lamine Diack as having "placed himself in a conflict of interest situation".
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Lamine Diack claimed that he received the money from supporters after his house burned down.
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Lamine Diack was warned for his behaviour, with the fact that he was not a member of IOC at the time of the wrongdoing considered a mitigating factor.
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Lamine Diack was placed under house arrest in Paris and Gabriel Dolle, the former anti-doping manager at the IAAF, was taken into custody in Nice.
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In 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency reported that with his influence, Lamine Diack was able to install two of his sons and a friend into positions that exerted influence over the IAAF.
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Lamine Diack was sentenced to jail for four years, two of them suspended.
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Lamine Diack was awarded with the Grand-Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan in 2007.