IAAF council member implicated in corruption allegations

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The IAAF is looking into allegations of corruption against a member of its governing council.

An IAAF spokesman told The Associated Press in an emailed statement Sunday that it had alerted its ethics commission to allegations made by British newspaper The Sunday Times against David Okeyo, who is also a vice president of Kenya’s athletics federation.

In a report that threatens to unleash another damaging scandal for the IAAF, The Sunday Times says Okeyo, Athletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat and a third Kenyan official took nearly $700,000 in money paid to Kenya’s track federation by sponsor Nike.

The Sunday Times says the three have been questioned by Kenyan police.

Former IAAF President Lamine Diack is currently under investigation in France, suspected of taking bribes to cover up Russian doping cases.

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