INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin - 18 June 2019 - 1 July 2019
Following earlier media reports on Operation Oikos in Spain, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) released a media statement, commenting on the involvement of their president.
In terms of sanctions, an Australian football player has been handed a 22-game ban and a fine of 20,000 AUD for betting a total of 36 AUD on three games involving his team. Two Bulgarian brothers have been provisionally suspended from professional tennis. A Nigerian tennis player has been suspended for three years and fined $5,000 after admitting to match-fixing and non-reporting offences. Zimbabwe Cricket Board has been suspended with immediate effect by the Sports and Recreation Commission. A Chinese eSports player has been banned for 18 months and had his contract terminated due to accusations of blackmail and match-fixing.
An Olympic marathon silver medalist has been banned for four years for doping. Her younger brother was also banned for nine months for testing positive for strychnine.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended that the director general and president of the Romanian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) are both dismissed from their posts. It comes after a second investigatory report found that the body had directed the Bucharest Laboratory to cover up positive doping tests relating to at least three athletes.
A Lithuanian man was intercepted at the Swiss-German border with two bags of banned doping products and close to 100,000 EUR in cash.
Following a four-year investigation in France into doping cover-ups, extortion and bribe-taking in world athletics, the former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president will stand trial on charges of corruption and money laundering. Leaked emails appear to link a member of the Qatari royal family to a deal that is being investigated as part of an inquiry into alleged corruption surrounding bids for the 2017 athletics world championships and 2020 Olympic Games.
A former UEFA president has been detained and questioned by police in France as part of an investigation into the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted unanimously to implement a recommendation of their executive board to oust the International Boxing Association (AIBA) from the Tokyo 2020 Games over issues surrounding its finances and governance and suspend the body until the issues are resolved. AIBA’s executive committee amended one of its bylaws to keep their former president and blocked him from returning as head of AIBA.
Lastly, the resignation of the Japanese Olympic Committee president took effect this June, three years after allegations first surfaced that Tokyo’s Olympics bidding committee had paid more than $2 million to win the 2020 Olympics.
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The next bi-weekly bulletin will be circulated on Monday, 15 July 2019.
- 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2022 Qatar World Cup Anti-Corruption Anti-Doping Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) Athletics Australia Bulgaria China Cricket Esports Football France International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) International Boxing Association (AIBA) International Olympic Committee (IOC) Japan Japan 2020 Olympic Games Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) Kenya League of Legends LPL Match Fixing Money Laundering Nigeria Olympics Qatar Rio 2016 Romania Romanian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) Spain Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) Sports Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) Switzerland Tennis Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) Tokyo Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)
