Habib Cisse, the former legal advisor to disgraced IAAF president Lamine Diack, was on Monday banned from athletics for life for his role in obstructing sanctions against Russia for doping in return for payments.

The IAAF Ethics Board said its panel had imposed upon "Cisse a lifetime ban from any further involvement of any kind in the sport of track and field and a fine of US $25,000 (22,612 euros)".

Cisse, the Board said, had helped cover up doping violations by "Liliya Shobukhova and other Russian athletes".

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