Senegal in shock after Lamine Diack charged with corruption
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Read < 1minuteThe charge is that Lamine Diack, the Senegalese former chief of world athletics, pocketed £140,000 to cover up Russian doping results
The people of Senegal have expressed shock and dismay at the corruption allegations surrounding the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations Lamine Diack.
French authorities investigating Diack say one of his sons, Papa Massata Diack was also very active in an alleged system of corruption that sought to blackmail athletes, with demands of money to hush-up suspected doping.
France’s national financial prosecutor said Lamine Diack pocketed more than 1 million dollars from the alleged cash-for-silence scheme.
Diack is a source of national pride in Senegal where he is seen as a wise and virtuous figure so many Senegalese are finding the allegations hard to believe
