PARIS, Oct 24 (APP/AFP): A French court has ordered the release from police custody of a former legal adviser to disgraced former world athletics head Lamine Diack, his lawyers said on Monday. Habib Cisse was placed behind bars earlier this month as part of a French investigation into corruption linked to state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes. Cisse, 41, was put under investigation in November 2015 for corruption along with Diack and Gabriel Dolle, former anti-doping doctor for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). “His provisional detention was completely unjustified,” his lawyers Louis-Marie de Roux and Cedric Labrousse told AFP after successfully appealing his incarceration, insisting he was not a flight risk. Diack headed the IAAF from 1999 to 2015 but found himself at the centre of a maelstrom that blew track and field’s governing body apart. French police have charged Diack with corruption on suspicion the Senegalese accepted bribes to cover up doping cases in Russia.
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Diack advisor freed from French custody
