Athletics faces latest doping difficulties as Kenya chief executive Isaac Mwangi suspended
ATHLETICS Kenya chief executive Isaac Mwangi has been provisionally suspended by the IAAF Ethics Board over a potential subversion of the anti-doping process.
Isaac Mwangi has been suspended by the IAAF Ethics Board
Mwangi has been barred from holding any office within Athletics Kenya or the IAAF for a period of 180 days pending the outcome of the investigation.
Last week, Mwangi requested 21 days' leave from his role pending investigations into claims he asked for a bribe to reduce the doping bans of two athletes.
According to reports in Kenya, Joy Sakari, a 400m runner, and Francisca Manunga, a 400m hurdler, said they were asked for around £15,000 to reduce the four-year bans they were given after testing positive at last year's World Championships.
Mwangi has strongly protested his innocence and says the allegations have caused him a lot of "mental anguish".
Three other high-ranking Kenyan athletics officials, David Okeyo, Isaiah Kiplagat and Joseph Kinyua, are currently under provisional suspensions by the IAAF having also been accused of subverting anti-doping processes.
The move to provisionally suspend Mwangi will heap more pressure on the embattled Kenyans, who still face the real possibility of being banned from the Rio Olympics.