Lamine Diack, the controversial and corrupt former president of the International Athletics Federation, dies

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Shrouded by the light of power and buried by the darkness of corruption,

, who was the almighty president of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), now World Athletics,

has died at 88 years of age.

He was there for 16 years, between 1999 and 2015. He was the first non-European president of the governing body of world athletics.

Few cases so notorious and pestilential of corruption in the heights as the one carried out by this man, a Senegalese who practiced various sports in his youth.

Especially athletics, in which, before Senegal's independence, he became French champion in the long jump.

Ambitious, intelligent, skillful and a prominent citizen of a country without many qualified people to aspire to high positions and wide destinies, the sporting and political power came to him very soon: mayor of Dakar, deputy of the National Assembly, minister of Youth and Sports. .. In the world of athletics, the greatest sphere of his notoriety and influence, in 1973 he became the first president of the African Athletics Confederation.

Later, between 1985 and 2002, he held the presidency of the Senegal Olympic Committee.

A member, of course, of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he assumed, in 1999, the presidency of the IAAF, after the death of the Italian

, from whose inertia he benefited to attract money to athletics through television income and sponsorship .

A path that Nebiolo had cleared and, in many cases, undertaken from the beginning and from a vision and commercial of his sport.

Crimes

In 2015 the waters were already running very murky over Monaco, the IAAF headquarters. The Russian state doping was a clamor and in the corridors there was talk of bribes, of "biting" here and there, of economic blackmail of athletes to hide their positives, of funds mysteriously disappeared ... Diack was replaced in the presidency of the IAAF for

, who had beaten

at the polls

and came to ventilate the house. A couple of months after giving up the throne, Diack was indicted for (alleged) crimes of accepting millionaire bribes in exchange for hiding, not to mention promoting with his silence and consent, the Russian scandal. A dark issue that still lingers: World Athletics has just announced that only 20 Russian athletes will be able to compete, in 2022, under a neutral flag. Russia, as a country, remains sanctioned and suspended.

In October 2015, the police detained Diack along with his son,

, another "pearl" of the family, and his vice president,

. In a few puddles the patriarch of the clan stopped getting into it. His name also appears in the fraudulent irregularities, always with money involved, receiving and distributing for the purchase of votes, in the concession of the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games. Also of the Moscow 2013 and Eugene 2021 World Cups, transferred to 2022 because of the pandemic.

Diack is widely mentioned in the sentence that has just convicted

, a member of the IOC between 2000 and 2017, former president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and ideologue of the plot. The trial of Diack, who always, taking advantage of his precarious health, put stones to the wheels of the Law, was closed last September. Diack was found guilty of, among other niceties, active and passive corruption. He was sentenced to four years in prison, two of them exempt from compliance, and a fine of 500,000 euros (sometimes the Justice has reasons that reason does not understand).

Diack appealed the ruling and was awaiting a new trial.

It will no longer be celebrated because, according to her son, he has been called God's.

Long and unknown he trusts us.

His father passed away in his sleep in his Dakar mansion.

The son, safe at home from an international arrest warrant that would cost him five years in prison and a millionaire outlay, continues to live his prosperous life.

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