@JournoAndy, Editor of @Sport_Integrity, will be going through the main points of the McLaren Report into the @iwfnet this evening and tomorrow on @sport_integrity only. The full Report is available here: mclarenweightliftingenquiry.com/wp-content/the… 
From the Executive Summary of the #McLarenReport: Dr. Ájan, former President of the
@IWF, used cash as a form of control. McLaren estimates that US$10.4m is unaccounted for…
@IWF, used cash as a form of control. McLaren estimates that US$10.4m is unaccounted for…
From the Executive Summary of the #McLarenReport: 40 AAFs hidden in @iwfnet records, including Gold & Silver medalists…
The Hungarian Anti-Doping Organisation appears to have been exonerated of any wrongdoing…
Only 2 of 5 @iwfnet VPs; 2 out of 8 members of the EB; & 1 of 5 continental federation Presidents came forward to give evidence to McLaren's team. 1 actively refused, & of 20 member federation Presidents, only 1 gave information of value…
…And only one current athlete was prepared to speak with McLaren's team…
On a visit to the @iwfnet offices on 3-6 March, McLaren's team found that Dr. Ájan remained in control, despite being suspended from duty…
Rumours of doping practices & cover ups dated back to the 1980s…
Interesting - a separate report will deal with allegations of financial malpractice…
Immediate action recommended by McLaren's team - note the discovery of 'books and records' in a 'safe' in the Budapest office…
The @iwfnet constitution was a 'façade', according to McLaren. Dr. Aján ruled the IWF though intimidation & fear…
How Dr. Aján retained control of the @iwfnet from his appointment as President 20 years ago…
The extent of the financial control that Dr. Aján had over the @iwfnet - at least $10.4m of his cash withdrawals from the federation's accounts appears to be unaccounted for…
Dr. Aján ensured that the Treasurer & General Secretary were not given full knowledge about what payments they were signing for; they were unaware of secret bank accounts; and another account was discovered about which it was difficult to obtain information…
Chapter 4 ought to be interesting - McLaren's team found that the @iwfnet election results were predetermined before any ballot…
Dr. Aján accepted late membership payments in cash, violating the @iwfnet Constitution. Yet despite this happening in 2009, 2013 & 2017, nothing was reported and Dr. Ajan acted alone…
Dr. Aján used doping as a threat to keep Executive Board members in line. Yet nobody spoke out.
Fines for multiple doping violations by member federations were apparently used by Dr. Aján as a method of collecting money…
If this is accurate, it is absolutely amazing that none of this came out before 2020…
Organisational chart of the @iwfnet, from McLaren's Report…
How the @iwfnet accounts were audited prior to 2009…
Interesting that independent auditing of accounts by professional firms is no guarantee that a sporting body is corruption free. Aján relied on auditing by KPMG, following 2009 reforms, as evidence that @iwfnet was corruption free. It wasn't.
The @iwfnet's assertion that it only held 3 bank accounts was 'blatantly and wholly untrue'…
The @iwfnet's complicated money flow from its various bank accounts…
The @iocmedia Ethics Commission apparently couldn't investigate when missing funds were highlighted in 2011…
…And we are stopping our analysis for the evening… It will continue from 6am UK time tomorrow morning.
McLaren's team could not find any irregular activity involving the @iwfnet Swiss accounts into which IOC broadcasting and marketing revenues were paid…
…However, money from those accounts was transferred to the @iwfnet OTP operating account in Budapest, from which Dr. Aján withdrew $12.5m, $1.8m of which involved honorarium payments withdrawn in cash…
'At least two additional accounts' named IWF Vilag Kupa discovered at OTP Bank, & 'numerous accounts' at MKB. Dr. Aján didn't disclose them. MKB accounts were disclosed under 1mth ago; & the Vilag Kupa account, used to wire transfer money to the MKB account, was never disclosed.
Dr. Aján tried to claim that the accounts were to facilitate a favourable exchange rate for US$, but McLaren's team found that he had personally withdrawn money from the accounts…
The transactions involving the @iwfnet MKB or OTP Vilag Kupa accounts were not included in the IWF accounts. The IWF bookkeeper, financial advisor (Alain Siergrist) & auditors KMPG did not know about them, McLaren's team found…
Dr. Aján's use of cash outlined by McLaren's team. Many revenue streams were collected in cash, and Dr. Aján issued the receipts. No way of knowing whether receipts are complete…
Analysis of the receipts shows Dr. Aján received $6m in cash from 2009-19, however there is evidence that receipts were not always issued - footnote details a $13,000 payment collected by Attila Adamfi & given to Dr. Aján. No receipt issued…
574 cash receipts issued by Dr. Aján 2009-19 totalling $6m. 133 receipts missing; hard copy of receipt books from 2009-18 destroyed by @iwfnet…
From 2013 on, none of the declared receipts were deposited into the @iwfnet OTP operating account. Only Dr. Aján knows where this money went…
Damning evidence regarding the 20 national federations who had paid doping fines in cash - where did the money go?
Romania complied, but anomalies were discovered…
The anomalies also continued regarding fines doping fines paid by Russia. A $50k doping fine paid to Dr. Aján apparently disappeared…
The Albanian federation broke national laws by driving $100k to Budapest to pay a cash fine, which it was told it must pay otherwise it would not go to #Rio2016!
Dr. Aján appears to have lied to the McLaren team about the reason why cash payment of doping fines was necessary…
McLaren's team also found that it appeared that Dr. Aján embezzled cash by double counting travel expenses.
Dr. Aján demanded payment of an airfare totalling $14,995… that's a very expensive flight…
Mohamed Yusef Al Mana, who is still President of the Asian Weightlifting Federation (awfederation.com/focus-on-awf/p…), alleged that he had 2 receipts relating to $200k received by Dr. Aján, but the Qatari declined to be interviewed when approached by McLaren's team…
Dr. Aján withdrew $12.5m from the @iwfnet OTP operational account between 2009/19. No records were kept of how cash was spent, but large withdrawals were often made in advance of Electoral Congresses, McLaren's team found…
When McLaren's team opened Dr. Aján's safe at the @iwfnet offices in Budapest on 8 May 2020 it was completely empty, despite 'several witnesses' telling the team that he kept cash in the safe.
McLaren's team finds that the @iwfnet 'intentionally' omitted and obscured transactions leading to $10.4m in cash that was unaccounted for…
A witness told McLaren's team that Dr. Aján used his Diplomatic Passport's status to avoid customs checks…
Dr. Aján regularly collected doping fines in excess of the €10k cash limit that can be carried over EU borders, as the below 2 examples illustrate…
An expert confirmed that Dr. Aján's activity could breach Hungary's criminal code…
KPMG attempted to get McLaren's team to sign a document rendering any information it gleaned from them unusable. Again, this casts doubt on claims by other sporting organisations that KMPG audits of their accounts are a mark of financial transparency…
The McLaren team's table of cash that remains unaccounted for. 'As of 3 June 2020, the IWF has failed to provide complete financial records for 2009 through 2019'.
At the @iwfnet Electoral Congress, vote buying was apparently rampant…
How Dr. Aján's acceptance of late payment of membership fees facilitated vote buying at the Electoral Congress; the groundwork for which was laid at the Annual Congress when he was able to build support amongst late payers…
McLaren's team found that Dr. Ajan had $405k available for vote buying at the 2013 Moscow Electoral Congress; & $218k available for vote buying at the 2017 Bangkok Electoral Congress…
Evidence from the hard drives of Attila Adamfi, Director General of the @iwfnet, showed how the composition of the Executive Board was determined in advance of the 2017 Electoral Congress…
Bribed voters were circulated a document showing them how they should vote (see picture)! This matched the eventual election of the @iwfnet Executive Board…
The bribes paid by Dr. Aján to secure the 2017 election ranged from $5k to $30k per vote…and included trips on cruise ships and luxury hotels…
The bribed voting block were 'quarantined' from the rest of the Electoral Congress in an attempt to ensure that they did vote for Dr. Aján and didn't change their vote at the last minute…
The bribed voting block were told to photograph their ballot in order to entitle them to receive a bribe. A delegate was photographed doing this at the 2017 Electoral Congress (see picture)…
Some member federations attempted to use erasable ink or asked for a second ballot form in order to receive a bribe, but later change their vote!
At the 2017 Electoral Congress, the person in charge of distributing cash bribes was Major General Intarat Yodbangtoey, the 1st Vice President of the IWF. Delegates queued in a hotel to receive their bribes…
Bribery was so endemic at the @iwfnet Electoral Congresses that senior officials joked about it…
Conclusions on vote buying - so endemic that McLaren's team has evidence that it continued at the Pan-American Federation elections in February 2020, after its investigation was launched!
Dr. Aján had been a Foundation Board member of @wada_ama since its inception in 1999. In 1997, he provided advance notice of tests to the Greek federation by writing test dates on a napkin…
Does @wada_ama have questions to answer as to why it tolerated Dr. Aján as a Foundation Board member during the dirtiest decade in weightlifting's history, as McLaren puts it?
Rather than clean up the sport in the 1980s and 90s, the @iwfnet restructured its weight classes in 1992 & 1997. McLaren found that had it not done this, some records would remain unbroken today…
Despite Dr. Aján promising a clean 2008 & 2012 Olympics, doping continued, with the 2015 Houston WCs considerer the dirtiest in the sport's history with 24 ADRVs…
In 2012, the @iwfnet appointed Patrick Schamasch, @iocmedia Medical Director from 1993 to 2012 Chair of its Anti-Doping Committee. He held that position for eight years. He also held positions with RusAF, Russian Biathlon & @WorldAthletics… is it credible that he knew nothing?
The Hungarian anti-doping organisation (HUNADO) conducted a 44-page internal audit into the allegations made by journalists for ARD in the 'Lord of the Lifters' documentary. To download it, visit: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
McLaren's team found that HUNADO followed instructions & protocols as required by the World Anti-Doping Code, and that there was nothing improper in their activities…
McLaren refers to Dr. Aján's unauthorised access to the work of the @iwfnet Anti-Doping Commission as 'meddling'. Was Patrick Schamasch unaware of this?
Dr. Aján had access to the @iwfnet test distribution plan, which facilitated any bribery attempts / control over national federations…
Dr. Aján was able to apply significant pressure on the @iwfnet anti-doping commission that on occasion, he was given modified data indicating which countries were targets…
Dr. Aján threatened the @iwfnet Legal Counsels with dismissal for, rightly, not discussing adjudication of the cases involving the @iocmedia retest of #Beijing2008 & #London2012 samples with him…
Amazing - a 2016 letter to Dr. Aján from Azeri weightlifting thanked him for delaying the suspension of certain weightlifters so as not to interfere with the Baku Islamic Games - ADRVs relating to 18 Azeri lifters were involved!
The @iwfnet allowed Valentin Snejev Hristov to compete, despite two AAFs, delaying the announcement of his sanction by almost a year…
Notification letters sent by the @iwfnet to athletes were regularly backdated to make it appear that they had been sent earlier than in reality…
Flowchart detailing the extent of delay in announcing ADRVs from Azerbaijan's weightlifters…
26 Turkish samples were not followed up, & the @iwfnet claimed this may have been the fault of the Turkish federation, but McLaren's team found this to be false - the IWF was the testing authority for this mission!
…The result of this failure was that athletes who had reported AAFs - or positive tests - that were not followed up went on to win Gold Medals in international competitions…
The total amount of doping fines paid by @iwfnet member federations between 2009 and 2019…
The McLaren team could not find any evidence that HUNADO staff were corrupt. However - note the footnote. A 'very late' piece of evidence regarding sample swapping has been passed to @wada_ama…
There was a 'fake bidding process' regarding the Houston 2015 World Championships!
McLaren's team found that @usantidoping was satisfied with the performance of HUNADO at the Houston 2015 World Championships, as evidenced by subsequent partnerships…
The Cologne and Montreal Laboratories cannot explain the 24 AAFs for oral Turinabol reported at Houston 2015…but the most likely explanation is urine swapping…
…And that brings us to the conclusion of our analysis of the 121-page McLaren Independent Investigation Team (MIIT) Report into allegations against the @iwfnet. An article will follow later…
