Track and field’s main anti-corruption body says it has cleared IAAF senior vice-president Sergei Bubka after he was accused of making a suspicious money transfer. The Monaco-based International Association of Athletics Federations has been dogged by reports in recent years of corruption at the highest levels.

Le Monde reported last year that Bubka had transferred funds in 2009 to a company linked to then-IAAF treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev, who was later banned from athletics for life over blackmail and corruption accusations.

The Athletics Integrity Unit says it “concluded, based on the information currently available to it, that there is no prima facie case of a breach of the applicable IAAF rules.”

Bubka was an Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder before becoming a key player in sports politics. He is head of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee and a member of the International Olympic Committee.