Disgraced former IAAF president faces court over graft today, faces 10-year prison sentence

This file photo taken on November 12, 2011, in Monaco shows IAAF President Lamine Diack speaking during a press conference prior to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) gala. Senegalese former IAAF president Lamine Diack, 82, was charged on November 4, 2015, in Paris with corruption relating to the International Association of Athletics Federation's anti-doping campaign, legal sources said. [AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE]

Lamine Diack, the disgraced former head of athletics’ world governing body, goes on trial in Paris today facing a potential 10-year prison sentence on charges of accepting millions of dollars to cover up Russian doping tests.

Diack, the Senegalese who was in charge of the International Association of Athletics Federations (now World Athletics), between 1999 and 2015, is charged with “giving and receiving bribes”, “breach of trust” and “organised money laundering”, and is expected to attend court.