Big housecleaning at the IAAF. With one objective: to put an end to the Lamine Diack years. The ethics commission of the international organization announces in a press release the life suspension of Maître Habib Cissé, its former legal advisor (and by extension that of Lamine Diack). He is sanctioned for his involvement in an alleged system of corruption, against the backdrop of positive tests of Russian athletes, including marathon runner Lilya Choboukhova. Master Habib Cissé is also ordered to pay $25.000 to the IAAF. The lawyer was quick to react to his suspension. “ JI do not recognize this decision as having any authority or effect with regard to me, He explains. I have never consented to the jurisdiction of this supposedly independent commission which is only an internal body of the IAAF, of which I recall the legal status of an association under Monegasque private law. » The ethics commission accuses him of a long series of breaches of the IAAF code of ethics. The suspension of the lawyer comes at a time when the trial of Lamine Diack is looming. The former president of the IAAF is expected to appear in French justice next January.
— Published September 10, 2019
