Monaco: French police have charged former world athletics president Lamine Diack with corruption over suspicions he took bribes to cover up doping cases, investigators said Wednesday.

Police raided the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) headquarters in Monaco before charging the 82-year-old Diack, who stood down in August when Britain's Sebastian Coe was elected to head the scandal-tainted federation. Coe asked to be questioned by investigators over the case during the raid on Tuesday, IAAF spokesman Chris Turner told AFP.