Athletics: Prosecution demands four years' jail for former track and field chief Lamine Diack

📆 6/18/2020 3:41 AM
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PARIS (AFP) - The prosecution in the French corruption trial of former global athletics supremo Lamine Diack on Wednesday (June 17) for him to serve four years in prison and be fined a maximum of €500,000 (S$784,000).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

PARIS - The prosecution in the French corruption trial of former global athletics supremo Lamine Diack on Wednesday for him to serve four years in prison and be fined a maximum of €500,000 .

The prosecutor, Francois-Xavier Dulin, told the court in Paris that although the prison sentence requested for Diack was long for a man"in the autumn years of his life", he had"committed an enormous offence" which had"worldwide" repercussions. He said he was acting to safeguard"the financial health of the IAAF" because the federation - since renamed World Athletics - was negotiating major sponsorship contracts with Russian bank VTB and a Russian broadcaster at the time.

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