LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Gafur Rakhimov, a businessman with alleged links to organized crime, resigned Monday as president of the International Boxing Association after his tenure played a role in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Europe's top boxing official received a formal warning in a case which highlighted the sport's power struggles, the International Boxing Association said Saturday. Tom Virgets, the ...

Interim President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Gafur Rakhimov attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov.1, 2018. With ...

GENEVA (AP) — A boxing official described as “one of Uzbekistan’s leading criminals” by United States authorities has been named interim president of the Olympic sport’s governing body. The ...

MOSCOW (AP) — An Uzbek businessman who has been accused of ties to organized crime was elected president of the amateur boxing association on Saturday, putting the sport on a collision course with the ...

GENEVA -- A boxing official described as "one of Uzbekistan's leading criminals" by United States authorities has been named interim president of the Olympic sport's governing body. The International ...

Gafur Rakhimov tells ABC News he used "influence" to get committee votes. Jan. 30, 2014 — -- Russia won the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, beating out Austria and South Korea, ...

Russia was granted the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, in part due to an alleged Russian crime boss and heroin kingpin, ABC News reported on Thursday. US treasury officials describe Gafur ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Europe’s top boxing official received a formal warning in a case which highlighted the sport’s power struggles, the International Boxing Association said Saturday. Tom Virgets, the ...

MOSCOW -- An Uzbek businessman who has been accused of ties to organized crime was elected president of the amateur boxing federation Saturday, putting the sport on a collision course with the ...