Dopage russe et corruption dans l'athlétisme: nouveau procès pour Massata Diack
Diack was convicted in September 2020 in the first instance for complicity in a bribery scheme aimed at covering up cases of blood doping among Russian athletes in 2011, a year before the London Olympic Games.
By delaying sanction proceedings against these athletes with questionable biological passports, the International Federation had allowed some of them to participate in these Games. In return, major Russian sponsors had renewed their contracts with the IAAF for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
On September 3, the opening of this new trial was postponed to December 8, as the lawyers for Papa Massata Diack and Habib Cissé, another protagonist in the case who was to be retried, had requested additional time to prepare their defense.
The two defendants were not present at the hearing. Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Diack in 2016 at the request of the French authorities.
This affair, revealed in 2015, shook the world of sport and precipitated the fall of Lamine Diack (who died in 2021) who had held the presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF, which has since become World Athletics) between 1999 and 2015.
In 2023, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld Papa Massata Diack's initial five-year prison sentence for passive corruption, complicity in passive corruption, bribery, and receiving stolen goods. However, it halved the fine initially imposed on the former IAAF marketing consultant, reducing it to €500,000.
But in November 2024, the Court of Cassation ruled that he should be retried on charges of complicity in passive corruption, judging that the Court of Appeal had not sufficiently justified its decision.
The Senegalese man had thus had his sentences overturned. However, the Court of Cassation upheld his guilt on the other charges (passive corruption, bribery, and receiving stolen goods).
Papa Massata Diack was also found guilty of embezzling 15 million euros from sponsorship contracts through a network of shell companies.
Last September, his lawyer Emanuel de Dinechin told AFP that his client "firmly contests all the accusations insofar as he was only the son of the person most concerned. He is waiting to finally put an end to this case."
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Pape Massata a déjà été sanctionné par la justice de son propre pays
Alors….
Pamodzi avaitnpermis a la fsf dengranger des milliards et cette affaire etait fini par un non lieu total...
Massata n'est coupable de rien et surtout cest un resilient. Dans cette affaire il a la verité avec lui.
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