Five national sports federations are disaffiliated or suspended from the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD), a resolution established on July 11, 2023 and ratified on July 25 of that same year.
The Badminton, Fencing, Modern Pentathlon, Surfing and Precision Shooting federations were disconnected from the COD and consequently, due to alleged irregular practices, they also do not receive funds directly through the Ministry of Sports, corresponding to the monthly allocations.
Each case has its particularities or reasons for the COD measure, but in general sense the organization relies on its article 21.6 of its statutes which reads: “In accordance with the disciplinary rules of the COD, when a member has failed to fulfill his or her duties and tasks, has violated the Olympic Charter and/or these Statutes or has not respected or implemented the decisions or resolutions of the COD bodies, this member will be subject to the following graduated measures and sanctions, depending on the seriousness of the facts and the level of damage or infringement:
a) Caution
b) Warning
c) Suspension
d) Expulsion
On this occasion we will observe Badminton.
According to the reports of which he is aware Free Diary, this seems to be the closest to solving your situation. The announcement of its elections and normalizing some internal processes keeps it ahead of the others.
Even so, seen a series of “Attended”, weaknesses of this Federation are: -is the lack of distribution of funds for its associations. -In addition to inadequate management of prop acquisition.
Also – it has been reported that the Federation has not settled with the Ministry of Sports the income since 2022, and this is a violation of the statutes, “Law 122/05 and Law 356/05, and that this has provoked administrative actions by the Ministry of Sports that are harming all of badminton.
As well as a “disorder in the part of the organization with respect to competencies and in their development.”
In another “Attention”, the Badminton World Federation is aware of “the serious situation due to alleged irregular management in the financial, operational and organizational part”, which is affecting badminton and the Olympic movement in general.
In total there are 46 “Attended” and covered by these points the disaffiliation of this entity occurs.
In addition, none of the five sanctioned were complying with Law 356, according to reports.
After the decisions taken in principle for the complaints made against the different federations, either by depositing documents in the Ministry or in the COD, or the non-delivery of the reports and non-declaration before the Comptroller General of the Republic on behalf of those five federations, the COD proceeds to sanction.
The five federations received a period of 90 days, between July and October, to normalize and none of them proceeded satisfactorily.
Given the irregularities, they were sanctioned.
Badminton, in good progress
Not one, but several processes have been heard in court after, especially, except Badminton, the other four federations have taken the COD to that stage. They have lost all cases so far. According to reports, only Badminton is the only one who has shown interest in normalizing her condition. In fact, elections have been announced. The rest have decided to face the sanctions imposed by the COD.