AIBA passes judgements on 15 ethics cases
17.12.2008
By Stine AlvadDespite the reform set out to clear the association of misconduct, AIBA still has fights to fight within the association. A letter from the AIBA president to the national federations lists 15 unethical cases all involving AIBA related officials and the executive commision's decisions on them.
In 2006 the International Boxing Association (AIBA) inserted a new president, the Taiwanese C. K. Wu as part of a new reform initiated in an attempt to cure the extensive corruption in the association. Wu’s first actions were to install Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg as head of a reform committee and to initiate a financial audit.
The audit led to the suspension of the AIBA secretary general Caner Doganeli and to a lifetime ban of the ex-president, Anwar Chowdhry on grounds of ethical and financial misconduct.
Despite these measures taken, it seems that AIBA is still struggling to keep the association clean.
In November this year, in a letter addressed to all national member federations of AIBA, the President Wu gives an account of an executive committee meeting where decisions on 15 AIBA related boxing officials involved in “unethical cases” were made.
The unethical cases include the Tanzanian Boxing federation President arrested for being involved in drug-smuggling, an AIBA official accused of having taken US$ 19.000 from AIBA funds to himself, manipulation of match scores by Kazakhstani officials and 12 other cases that have led to penalties, suspension or banning of the people involved in the unethical cases.
“In taking these measures, the AIBA executive commission has taken significant steps towards illustrating once again that AIBA and the sport of boxing is no place for manipulation or political and dishonest behaviour,” president Wu writes in the letter dated 28 November 2008.
To read the letter in full with details on the 15 cases, click here.
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Despite the reform set out to clear the association of misconduct, AIBA still has fights to fight within the association. A letter from the AIBA president to the national federations lists 15 unethical cases all involving AIBA related officials and the executive commision's decisions on them.
In 2006 the International Boxing Association (AIBA) inserted a new president, the Taiwanese C. K. Wu as part of a new reform initiated in an attempt to cure the extensive corruption in the association. Wu’s first actions were to install Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg as head of a reform committee and to initiate a financial audit.
The audit led to the suspension of the AIBA secretary general Caner Doganeli and to a lifetime ban of the ex-president, Anwar Chowdhry on grounds of ethical and financial misconduct.
Despite these measures taken, it seems that AIBA is still struggling to keep the association clean.
In November this year, in a letter addressed to all national member federations of AIBA, the President Wu gives an account of an executive committee meeting where decisions on 15 AIBA related boxing officials involved in “unethical cases” were made.
The unethical cases include the Tanzanian Boxing federation President arrested for being involved in drug-smuggling, an AIBA official accused of having taken US$ 19.000 from AIBA funds to himself, manipulation of match scores by Kazakhstani officials and 12 other cases that have led to penalties, suspension or banning of the people involved in the unethical cases.
“In taking these measures, the AIBA executive commission has taken significant steps towards illustrating once again that AIBA and the sport of boxing is no place for manipulation or political and dishonest behaviour,” president Wu writes in the letter dated 28 November 2008.
To read the letter in full with details on the 15 cases, click here.
Related links: