PARIS (AP) — Former IAAF President Lamine Diack has been placed under criminal investigation on corruption and money-laundering charges, suspecting of taking at least 200,000 euros (US$220,000) from Russia to cover up positive doping tests, French authorities said Wednesday.
The French office that handles financial prosecutions said a legal adviser to Diack, Habib Cisse, also was placed under investigation by judges acting on evidence provided by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Diack stepped down in August after 16 years in charge of track and field’s governing body.
Gabriel Dolle, who was the director of the IAAF’s anti-doping department, also has been taken into custody in Nice in the south of France, the national financial prosecutors’ office in Paris said.