Private funding is nothing new for national athletes as they receive financial support both from the government through the PSC and privately through individual sponsors or organizations. Another major athlete Lafferty supported was Philippine long jump queen Marestella Torres during her 2016 Rio Olympics bid. He also acts as Obiena’s agent when engaging in contracts with sponsors, while Lafferty’s wife Carol is a sports nutritionist and dietitian. Lafferty has supported Obiena’s career operationally and financially. In other correspondence and documents below, Obiena also explained to PATAFA why he had to channel the coaching payments to a third party – a bank account owned by American sports patron Jim Lafferty. Obiena submitted the proposal to PATAFA on August 24, 2021. In several other press conferences and hearings, Obiena reiterated he had asked PATAFA to pay his coaches and team directly – which he stated again in his Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) budget proposal for the 2024 Paris Olympics. PATAFA presented the same email in a virtual press conference on Tuesday, January 4, but omitted Obiena’s replies. He also sent Petrov’s bank details way back on June 8, 2020. In the email thread below, Obiena is seen requesting PATAFA to pay his coach and team staff directly for the past two years.
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Rappler managed to obtain documents verified by Obiena’s camp that show the full email exchanges between the 26-year-old and his national federation that refute PATAFA’s allegations in the internal investigation and reveal the system he had to submit to. ( TIMELINE: Falling out with PATAFA mars EJ Obiena rise) This, PATAFA said, prevented the organization from contacting Petrov and paying the Ukrainian coach directly. MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) decided to expel EJ Obiena from the national team and charge him with a criminal case of estafa, following an internal investigation where it noted how the pole vault star had created a wedge between the national federation and coach Vitaly Petrov.
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