The Associated Press obtained an early copy of Thursday morning's World Anti-Doping Report, which includes the finding that then-IAAF President Lamine Diack told a lawyer that he’d need to make a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that nine Russian athletes accused of doping wouldn’t compete at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

The 89-page investigation, obtained early by an inside source that asked to remain anonymous, details that IAAF must restructure to ensure that “corruption cannot be blamed on a small number of miscreants.” Dick Pound, WADA’s first president wrote the report as well as the first WADA report which was published in Nov. 2015. 

The AP also revealed on Tuesday that the IAAF was aware of the severe doping problem in Russia six years prior to the governing body’s decision to ban the Russian federation from international competition. The AP obtained six years-worth of letters and documents that reveal the IAAF was not only aware of the problem but feared for the health of Russian athletes in regards to performance enhancing drug abuse.

The WADA report also details the sudden increase from $6 million to $25 million for Russian rights to televise the 2013 Championships provided by a Russian bank. The report also shows evidence of a lawyer hand-picked by Diack to handle the Russian cases, despite the individual’s little experience with anti-doping issues. 

Pound wrote that there were meetings between Diack and IAAF lawyer Huw Roberts, who delivered details of the nine Russian doping cases directly to Diack with the dilemma. The report continues with Diack explaining to Roberts, “he was in a difficult position that could only be resolved by President Putin of Russia with whom he had struck up a friendship.”

According to the report, none of the nine athletes competed in Moscow, but the IAAF did not pursue their cases any further. Roberts resigned from his post in 2014. 

The report continues to describe a 2012 meeting at a Moscow hotel involving a Russian TV advisor, Papa Massata Diack, Habib Cisse, and then-Russian Athletics Federation Head Valentin Balakhnichev. The meeting was reportedly conducted to resolve a “problem” with the $6 million price for the Russian TV rights at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. 

The meeting resulted in Papa Diack arranging a $25 million deal with a Russian bank. Diack was permanently banned from the sport last week following an IAAF Ethics Commission meeting that banned four former IAAF members for the attempted doping cover-up of Russian marathoner Liliya Shobukhova.