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Co-operating with the ethical World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation (WVBF) turned out to be a very bad idea for the founder and president of the beach volleyball organisation ProSeries, Emanuele Monduzzi. Only 18 months later, ProSeries was ruined and summoned to court because WVBF did not hold up its end of the agreement, and Monduzzi found himself barred from WVBF tournaments for alleged breaches of ethical principles.

In 2006, the World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation (WVBF) was founded in Copenhagen as an ethical alternative to a corrupt and undemocratic regime in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). However, despite a professed commitment to transparency, WVBF will not say who its members are or publish findings from a commissioned ethics report on the breakdown of relations with the beach volley organisation ProSeries last year.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is getting ready to shut down a very lucrative financial arrangement that has benefited its former president and current honorary president, Ruben Acosta, for years. FIVB leaders have asked the next World Congress to delete an article in FIVB's financial regulations that says that FIVB members can receive 10 per cent commission on the value of all sponsorship and television contracts they sign on behalf of the organisation.

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.

Long-held suspicions were confirmed in late March this year, when Chinese badminton coach Li Yongbo admitted to fixing one of the women’s singles semi-finals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.