French court upholds corruption sentence for Papa Massata Diack

FILE PHOTO: Papa Massata Diack, the son of former world athletics chief Lamine Diack, attends a news conference in Dakar, Senegal September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre

PARIS (Reuters) -Paris's appeal court on Thursday upheld a corruption conviction for Papa Massata Diack, son of Lamine Diack, the late former head of world athletics' governing body.

Papa Massata, who has denied all wrongdoing, is currently in Senegal, where he fled seven years ago when the French investigation first began.