Further allegations of corruption against India's Olympic lobbyist Tayyab Ikram

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Former IOC member Narinder Dhruv Batra has requested a formal independent investigation into the current president of the Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH), Tayyab Ikram, and the president of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF), Fumio Ogura. Once again, Batra, who was FIH president from 2016 to 2022, accuses his successor Ikram of corruption and conflicts of interest.

In a five-page letter dated 6 September 2025 to various FIH bodies, Batra calls for the immediate launch of an independent investigation against Tayyab Ikram (a Pakistani who became a citizen of Macau) and Fumio Ogura of Japan. The letter was sent to the Executive Board, the Ethics Commission, the Judicial Commission, the Disciplinary Commissioner, all national hockey federations and numerous other officials from the international sports community, including the International Olympic Committee.

Is Hockey president Tayyab Ikram collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal commissions from the Olympic Solidarity fund?

The corruption allegations against the president of the Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) are serious and bizarre. The case affects not only the FIH, but also OCA, as well as the IOC’s core business: Olympic Solidarity. And here, as with several other IFs, the IOC is not taking action.

THE INQUISITORJens Weinreich

Narinder Batra's demand:

"Implement appropriate disciplinary measures should misconduct be substantiated-up to and including restitution of funds, removal from office, or other sanctions as set out in the FIH Statutes and Integrity Code."

These allegations add to a series of serious corruption allegations against Tayyab Ikram, which I covered in this publication in December 2024. In it, Batra described in detail Tayyab Ikram's global fraud scheme, which allegedly involved siphoning off huge sums of money from the IOC's Olympic Solidarity fund. How this allegedly happened is described in detail. Ikram boasted of siphoning off between USD 150,000 and USD 200,000 annually from the IOC fund – in addition to numerous other illegal revenues that he allegedly collected from the international sports system through criminal means.

I asked Tayyab Ikram a total of 49 detailed questions about this and other matters, none of which were answered.

The IOC also failed to provide adequate answers to any of the 27 detailed questions I asked.