A few examples from just this week:
Doctors from the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL) who allegedly helped Olympic race walk gold medallist Alex Schwazer to avoid being caught for using banned performance-enhancing drugs have been sent two-year prison sentences.
Pierluigi Fiorella and Giuseppe Fischetto were both found guilty by a court in Bolzano.
Rita Bottiglieri, the former technical director of FIDAL, received a nine-month jail sentence.
The two doctors were also fined €10,000 (£9,000/$12,000) each
Schwazer, the Beijing 2008 50 kilometres champion, returned to competition in May 2016 after serving a ban following a positive test for erythropoietinon the eve of London 2012.
The Italian had returned to competition following a three-and-a-half-year doping ban when he won the 50km at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in Rome.
Soon after his return, though, it emerged that urine sample Sdhwazer had provided for a test on January 1 that year had been analysed more than three month later, using different methods which had detected the presence of an anabolic steroid.
He claimed the positive test was either tampered with or deliberately rigged to discredit him.
Schwazer was still given an eight-year sentence that he is currently continuing to appeal against.
Olympic figure skating bronze medallist Carolina Kostner also received a 21-month ban in 2015 for being complicit in the cover-up of Schwazer, her then boyfriend, before London 2012.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1060733/italian-doctors-and-official-who-ignored-olympic-champion-taking-drugs-are-sent-to-prison
Ethics committee of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is in Kenya to carry out more investigations and hearings before issuing a final verdict on three suspended former Athletics Kenya officials.
“They are focusing mainly on the alleged doping and financial scandals involving the officials,” explained the source, adding that it has been the desire for IAAF Ethics Board to hold the sessions discreetly to avoid media attention.
SUSPENDED OFICIALS
In November 2015, IAAF Ethics Board suspended three senior AK officials on suspicion of subverting doping process in the country. They are former President Isaiah Kiplagat (now deceased), Vice-president David Okeyo and former treasurer Joseph Kinyua - for six months.
Three months later, the same board suspended AK Chief Executive Officer Isaac Mwangi for six months, also for allegedly subverting anti-doping mechanisms in Kenya.
Two drugs cheats Joyce Sakari and Francisca Koki, who had been banned for four years, alleged that Mwangi had asked for Sh2.5m from each of them on October 16, 2016 so as to have their bans reduced.
Okeyo and Kinyua are being investigated by the IAAF’s ethics board over allegations of financial impropriety on American sportswear giant Nike’s contract with AK and DOPING cover up.
https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/IAAF-probe-team-in-Kenya/1100-4285186-sej2jq/index.html
Of particular interest to the Justice Department, according to the subpoena, is the world governing body for track and field, known as the International Association of Athletics Federations. That federation awarded the sport’s 2019 world championships to Doha, Qatar, and the 2021 event to Eugene.
The investigation is being conducted by the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York. The Brooklyn office includes the same prosecutors who have spent years investigating FIFA, the global governing body for soccer, resulting in a range of bribery and corruption charges that produced upheaval in the organization. The office has also spent years investigating systematic DOPING in Russia.
FIFA, too, has a major competition scheduled to be held in QATAR: the 2022 World Cup. At the FIFA trial last year, new information emerged about alleged bribery that helped to steer that tournament to Qatar.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/sports/fifa-ioc-usoc-iaaf.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66450734&pgtype=Homepage