Three senior members of athletics' world governing body have been provisionally suspended over allegations they took money to delay naming Russian drug cheats.
Nick Davies, his wife Jane Boulter-Davies and Pierre-Yves Garnier cannot hold office for 180 days from 10 June.Davies stood down as chief of staff to IAAF president Lord Coe last December.
The IAAF ethics board said the sanctions "do not prejudge" the investigations that will follow.
The provisional suspensions were imposed, it added, after "careful consideration of the evidence and information available".
That relates to an email reported to have been sent by former IAAF consultant Papa Massata Diack to his father and then IAAF president Lamine Diack in July 2013.
It claimed three staff members were in receipt of, or had knowledge of, a cash payment to withhold details of attempted cover-ups of Russian doping cases.
In December, Davies said he was standing aside "until such time as the ethics board is able to review the matter properly".
Boulter-Davies works for the IAAF as a project manager, while Garnier is a medical manager.
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