The decision comes after former IAAF President Lamine Diack was placed under criminal investigation in France on charges of corruption and money laundering.
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“This athlete’s case figures in the report that the World Anti-Doping Agency gave us”, Houlette told the AP.
Also Thursday, the Russian athletics federation said that hammer thrower Maria Bespalova, who finished 11th at the 2012 London Olympics, was banned for four years after testing positive for a steroid.
Also banned were three lesser known Russian athletes: race-walker Evgeny Nushtaev and runners Vlas Bredikhin and Yaroslav Khlopov.
The son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, who is embroiled in a corruption scandal, faces disciplinary charges from the governing body.
Dolle was the director of the IAAF anti-doping department until past year.
Prosecutors said the investigations included a probe into allegations that Diack was paid more than one million euros to cover up positive drugs tests.
Sebastian Coe, who succeeded Diack as IAAF president, was in the organization’s offices when the French police arrived.
For the first time Friday, the IAAF’s ethics commission said it has also been investigating Papa Massata Diack and others.
Officers visited the headquarters of worldwide athletics in Monaco on Tuesday and took documents, a statement from the IAAF confirmed.
French TV news channel iTELE reported that the investigation was focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes, although the prosecutor’s office did not confirm that.
Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, stepped down from his role as an IAAF marketing consultant past year during an investigation into allegations of doping in Russian Federation. It is understood Coe was at the offices at the time and volunteered to speak to the investigators.
The press conference will exclude “matters now under police investigation, which are expected to be available before the end of the year”, WADA said in a later statement.
Earlier on Wednesday it emerged that former IAAF president Lamine Diack is reportedly being investigated by French authorities amid allegations of corruption and money laundering.
“In the course of Sir Anthony’s investigations, he liaised with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in respect of the extensive and detailed investigation it has been undertaking with wider terms of reference and which is shortly to report its findings, and shared information with that agency”, Beloff said.
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An independent commission, chaired by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s founding president Dick Pound, was formed after the broadcast of an ARD documentary – “Top-secret doping: How Russian Federation makes its winners” – which was aired in December 2014.
