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The news comes at a time when the image of sport's governing
bodies is under serious scrutiny, with the FIFA world soccer
body also mired in a large-scale corruption probe.
The source said the magistrate had placed Lamine Diack, the
Senegal-born former head of the International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF), officially under investigation
along with his judicial adviser.
A doctor in charge of anti-doping matters at the IAAF was also
put under formal inquiry following a police swoop at the
organization's headquarters on Tuesday, said the source, who was
speaking on condition of anonymity as is customary in France in
judicial inquiries of the kind.
"It concerns money movements and goes beyond doping," the source
said.
According to French news channel iTELE, the investigation is
focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not
revealing the doping of Russian athletes.
Diack, a former long jumper who was born in June 1933, headed
the athletics body for the best part of a decade from 1999.
Under the French legal system, being placed under official
inquiry does not automatically lead to trial but often does.
(Reporting by Chine Labbe in Paris and Matthias Galante in Nice;
Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Ingrid Melander and James
Regan)
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