The doors of AIBA office at Lausanne has a Notice pasted addressing the AIBA Employees (image below the text):
“Dear AIBA Employees,
Please be informed that the AIBA Executive Committee have passed a motion calling a Vote of No Confidence in the current AIBA President Ching-Kou Wu.
In addition, motions were passed enabling the establishment of an Interim Management Committee (“IMC”) to manage the work of AIBA and AIBA Headquarters and the organisation of Extraordinary Congress.
Consequently, in this moment of transition, it has been decided to close the office for the remainder of this week.
The staff are being offered these 3 days as holidays.
Sincerely
AIBA IMC”
Earlier, there were reports that the president of AIBA, was set to be ousted from his position with instability and financial turmoil growing at the organisation.
Controversies and AIBA have been close pals; last time they were in news for sacking all their five star judges for controversies related to judging during Rio Olympics. Irish boxer Michael Conlan had gone public against corruption after losing in the bantamweight quarter-finals to the Russian Vladimir Nikitin. Conlan had shouted into a ringside microphone: “They’re known for being cheats. Amateur boxing stinks from the core right to the top … I think boxing is dead. It’s about whoever pays the most money.” Along with the judges, it is believed that the then Executive Director Karim Bouzidi was reassigned from his position. He has since left his role.
Prior to that, under another controversial case, India’s Boxer Sarita Devi had refused to accept her bronze medal at the 2014 games in Incheon and accused judges of pandering to locals by declaring South Korea’s Park Ji-Na the winner on points in their semi-final at the prize giving ceremony of the 57-60 kg (Lightweight) category. She had to take the brunt of this action of hers to that level that she turned professional in 2017.