In May, the president of the Netherlands Boxing Federation, Boris van der First, was not allowed to run for the post of head of the IBA, allegedly because of a violation of the organization's charter..

The IBA's Independent Boxing Virtue Division disqualified the Dutchman and four contenders less than a day before the election. The reasons for this decision were campaigning in an unscheduled period and cooperation with other candidates..

The only candidate in the elections was the current head of the IBA, Russian Umar Kremlev. Consequently, a functionary from the aggressor country was re-elected to the post of head of the International Boxing Association.

In turn, the Dutchman filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but at the time of the elections, he had not yet made his decision. The request to postpone the election for the position of the head of the IBA was also rejected..

Only a month later, the CAS found that van der First had committed only a "

Moreover, the court recognized that the Kremlin himself committed the same violation, but was not punished for it, reports Inside The Games..

Earlier, van der First was one of the initiators of an appeal to the IBA demanding that the Russian Boxing Federation be removed from Congress due to the full-scale war that the Russian Federation launched against Ukraine.. However, the IBA, led by the Kremlin, refused to impose sanctions on the aggressor country..

It should be noted that Kremlev has been the President of the IBA since December 2020, he previously headed the Russian Boxing Federation.