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14-05-2016, 03:20 AM
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Tokyo Olympics: €1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020
Wednesday 11 May 2016
A seven-figure payment from the Tokyo Olympic bid team to an account linked to the son of the disgraced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack was apparently made during Japan’s successful race to host the 2020 Games, the Guardian has learned.
The alleged payment of about €1.3m (£1m), now believed to be under French police scrutiny, will increase pressure on the International Olympic Committee to investigate properly links between Diack’s regime and the contest to host its flagship event. It also raises serious questions over Tokyo’s winning bid, awarded in 2013.
Papa Massata Diack: Tokyo bid claims the latest in an avalanche of allegations
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Any suggestion that votes were bought will be hugely embarrassing for the IOC, which has set great store by the probity of its bidding process since reforms following the bribery scandal that preceded the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games.
Diack Sr was an IOC member between 1999 and 2013, becoming an honorary member in 2014 before resigning as president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in November last year after allegations he had accepted more than €1m in bribes to cover up positive Russian doping tests. He is now prevented from leaving France while prosecutors there investigate corruption at athletics’ governing body.
In March, the Guardian revealed that the French investigation had widened to include the bidding races for the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
It is now understood that among transactions under suspicion are payments totalling about €1.3m apparently sent from the Tokyo 2020 bid, or those acting on their behalf, directly to the Black Tidings secret bank account in Singapore. The account is linked to Lamine Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who was employed by the IAAF as a marketing consultant.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?229594-Squeaky-Clean-Singapore-bank-being-used-as-corruption!!&goto=newpost).
Tokyo Olympics: €1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020
Wednesday 11 May 2016
A seven-figure payment from the Tokyo Olympic bid team to an account linked to the son of the disgraced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack was apparently made during Japan’s successful race to host the 2020 Games, the Guardian has learned.
The alleged payment of about €1.3m (£1m), now believed to be under French police scrutiny, will increase pressure on the International Olympic Committee to investigate properly links between Diack’s regime and the contest to host its flagship event. It also raises serious questions over Tokyo’s winning bid, awarded in 2013.
Papa Massata Diack: Tokyo bid claims the latest in an avalanche of allegations
Read more
Any suggestion that votes were bought will be hugely embarrassing for the IOC, which has set great store by the probity of its bidding process since reforms following the bribery scandal that preceded the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games.
Diack Sr was an IOC member between 1999 and 2013, becoming an honorary member in 2014 before resigning as president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in November last year after allegations he had accepted more than €1m in bribes to cover up positive Russian doping tests. He is now prevented from leaving France while prosecutors there investigate corruption at athletics’ governing body.
In March, the Guardian revealed that the French investigation had widened to include the bidding races for the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
It is now understood that among transactions under suspicion are payments totalling about €1.3m apparently sent from the Tokyo 2020 bid, or those acting on their behalf, directly to the Black Tidings secret bank account in Singapore. The account is linked to Lamine Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who was employed by the IAAF as a marketing consultant.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?229594-Squeaky-Clean-Singapore-bank-being-used-as-corruption!!&goto=newpost).