NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s director of public prosecutions says distance-running great Kip Keino and six other former officials will be charged with corruption relating to the alleged misappropriation of more than $545,000 that was meant to help fund the country’s team at the Rio Olympics.
Keino, a trailblazer for Kenyan runners and a gold medalist in the 1500m at the 1968 Olympics, was head of the national Olympic committee until last year. Kenya’s former minister of sport, Hassan Wario, is also one of the ex-officials the public prosecutor says will be charged, as is Stephen Arap Soi, the team leader at the Rio Games.