The president of French soccer champion Paris Saint-Germain is the latest sports official implicated in a sprawling five-year corruption probe that keeps spreading.
FILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, Paris Saint-Germain soccer club President Nasser Al-Khelaifi, arrives to speak to the media during a press conference at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. A French judicial official says Al-Khelaifi has been placed under investigation for suspected corruption.
The payment came from a Singapore account called Black Tidings linked to Papa Massata Diack. His father, Lamine Diack, was the IAAF president for 16 years and one of the most influential African members of the International Olympic Committee. Russia had “sabotaged” the 2012 London Olympics by sending athletes who should have been banned, wrote the investigation team, which included Canadian law professor Richard McLaren.French prosecutors put Diack under formal investigation for corruption and money-laundering. The 85-year-old Senegalese is under house arrest, and was indicted this week.
In October 2009, he was an IOC member when Rio de Janeiro was voted the 2016 Olympics host. Chicago’s bid, withby President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey in Denmark, was eliminated in the first round. Takeda acknowledged approving paying $2 million from the bid to Black Tidings before the 2020 Olympic vote. He denied wrongdoing butThe role of Japanese marketing giant Dentsu was questioned. Before retiring, Lamine Diack extended the IAAF’s long-standing commercial partnership with Dentsu through 2029.A spin-off from Qatar’s win in 2010 to host soccer’s 2022 World Cup was deeper investment in sports.
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