The International Olympic Committee has expressed its concerns with the International Boxing Association’s leadership elections, which saw amateur boxing’s governing boxy re-elect its Russian president on Saturday.
IBA members re-elected Umar Kremlev by acclamation two days after the only other candidate, Dutch boxing federation president Boris van der Vorst, was removed by an independent vetting panel.
Kremlev, who in the past thanked Russian president Vladimir Putin for his support, has previously been accused of governance concerns as well as a continued relationship with Russian majority state-owned energy company, Gazprom.
“The events surrounding IBA’s general assembly, in particular the elections, merit careful analysis and are just reinforcing the questions and doubts around IBA’s governance,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement.