{"id":21800,"date":"2025-10-30T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-athletics-governing-body-victims-of-1-3m-corporate-theft\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:50:54","slug":"world-athletics-governing-body-victims-of-1-3m-corporate-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-athletics-governing-body-victims-of-1-3m-corporate-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"World Athletics: Governing body victims of \u00a31.3m corporate theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said the organisation was &#8220;determined to recover whatever monies we are able using the full force of the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Too many organisations brush incidents like this under the carpet, terminating employment with limited information, which allows perpetrators to continue their scams and thefts within new organisations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are not that type of organisation. We have built a strong reputation for good governance, transparency and for defending what is right, even if it is sometimes a little uncomfortable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is uncomfortable but it is important that we do the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The governing body said it will also introduce &#8220;a set of enhanced internal financial controls&#8221; to prevent future frauds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/ce9dr372kpzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said the organisation was &#8220;determined to recover whatever monies we are able using the full force of the law&#8221;. &#8220;Too many organisations brush incidents like this under the carpet, terminating employment with limited information, which allows perpetrators to continue their scams and thefts within new organisations,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21802,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions\/21802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}