Diack is convicted of accepting bribes to conceal the doping of athletes and thus allow them to continue competing, including during the London 2012 Olympics. The French court also found Diack guilty of receiving money from Russia to finance Macky Salls campaign in the Senegalese presidential election the same year, in exchange for delaying anti-doping measures.

The trial took place in July and prosecutors demanded four years in prison for the 87-year-old Senegalese man, who was accused of giving and taking bribes, infidelity and organized money laundering.

Prosecutors claimed that Diack received a total of the equivalent of SEK 36 million to conceal the doping of athletes.

Blamed the zone

The defense claimed that Lamine Diack is innocent and instead blames his son Papa Massata Diack, who is also charged and for whom five years' imprisonment was demanded.

Papa Massata Diack was a consultant for the IAAF.

He did not attend the trial because Senegal did not agree to extradite him to France.

He has been questioned in Senegal.

The Senegalese was chairman of the International Athletics Federation IAAF (now called World Athetics) between 1999 and 2015. According to the indictment, Diack received the equivalent of just over SEK 14 million from Russia, which he used for Macky Sal's presidential campaign, which Sall won.

In exchange, Diack is said to have made sure to hide the doping of 23 Russian athletes ahead of the Olympics in London 2012 and the World Cup in Moscow 2013.

Diack has denied the allegations.

Greps 2015

It was in December 2014 that extensive doping in Russian athletics was revealed.

The international anti-doping organization Wada started an investigation that led to Diack's arrest in November 2015. At the same time, the Russian Athletics Federation was shut down.

The International Athletics Federation has still not admitted the Russian Federation to the Community.

Russian athletes are only allowed to compete internationally if they can guarantee that they are not doped and only under a neutral flag.

The trial was held in France due to money laundering.