Lamine Diack

Diack competed in athletics and played and coached football in Dakar, introducing the flat back-four defensive system as a coach, before moving into sports administration: he led the Senegalese Olympic committee and served as secretary of state for youth and sports in the early 1970s.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-fr}{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en} In politics he was mayor of Dakar from 1978 to 1980 and a member of Senegal's National Assembly from 1978 to 1993, ending as its senior vice-president.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en}

Diack became president of the IAAF in 1999 and a member of the International Olympic Committee the same year.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en} His tenure ended in scandal: investigators found that he had negotiated a payment of 1.5 million dollars with Russian officials to fund Macky Sall's 2012 presidential campaign in Senegal in exchange for delaying anti-doping procedures against Russian athletes.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en} Under house arrest in Paris from November 2015, he was tried in France and on 16 September 2020 the Paris Criminal Court sentenced him to four years in prison, two of them suspended, with the maximum fine of 500,000 euros; his son Papa Massata Diack was convicted with him.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en} He returned to Senegal in May 2021, when the Dakar club Jaraaf, which he had twice presided over, paid his bail, and he died at home in Dakar on 3 December 2021, aged 88.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-fr}

No Urdu article about Diack exists, so this page is written from the English, Arabic and French articles and from Wikidata.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-ar}{cite:source/wikidata-lamine-diack}

On faith, the record is an absence, and the museum records it as one: none of the three article texts mentions his religion at all, no infobox or category files him by it, and his Wikidata item carries no religion value.{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-en}{cite:source/wikipedia-lamine-diack-fr}{cite:source/wikidata-lamine-diack} With nothing named by any source, his faith is entered as unknown, and nothing is inferred from his Senegalese origin.

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