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AIBA has been riven with in-fighting for
months, with former president CK Wu first provisionally
suspended and then stepping down in November after a bitter
dispute with his executive committee.
Wu, an IOC member, was replaced by interim chief Franco
Falcinelli and the federation will convene an extraordinary
congress with its national member federations on Jan. 27 in
Dubai to consider proposed changes to its governance.
"The IOC executive board has major concerns with regard to the
situation within AIBA in different aspects," IOC President
Thomas Bach told reporters.
"There is the governance issues, there is the fact that
financial statements have not been made fully transparent, there
are still questions open with regard to judging, refereeing and
anti-doping and therefore we have asked AIBA for a full report
by the end of January."
Bach said he wanted to see what measures AIBA would take to
tackle the problems that have tarnished the federation. Wu
remains an IOC member as his membership to the Olympic body does
not depend on the AIBA presidency.
"We want to see the measures AIBA is taking to address these
issues. Until things will change the IOC will not make any
financial contributions to AIBA," Bach said.
He said the next payment to AIBA would be in a few months for
referees for next year's Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
This is not the first time AIBA has IOC funds blocked.
The Olympic ruling body withheld payment of more than $1 million
of television rights from the Athens 2004 Olympics after a
refereeing scandal at those Games.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Ed Osmond)
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