The International Boxing Association are ready to file criminal complaints against the International Olympic Committee in the United States, France and Switzerland.
The Swiss-based IOC allowing women boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting to compete and win gold medals in Paris last year "may serve as grounds for criminal prosecution," the IBA claimed in a statement.
An executive order on transgender athletes by United States President Donald Trump was cited on Monday by the Russian-led boxing body, which has been banished from the Olympics, to justify filing the criminal complaints.
"According to the Swiss law, any action or inaction that poses a safety risk to competition participants warrants investigation and may serve as grounds for criminal prosecution," the IBA said, adding "similar complaints are to be filed with the attorneys general of France and the USA."
The IBA, who have been funded by Russia state energy firm Gazprom, also promised free legal advice to women boxers to pursue cases against IOC president Thomas Bach and other senior Olympic officials.
"President Trump's order to ban transgender athletes from women's sport validates IBA's efforts to protect the integrity of female sports," the boxing body's president, Umar Kremlev, said on Monday.
The legal threats intensify a years-long feud between the now-exiled IBA and the IOC - and Kremlev against Bach - who took over control of running boxing tournaments at the past two Summer Games, in Tokyo and Paris.
The IOC have consistently said the boxers from Algeria and Taiwan, who were assigned female at birth and identify as women, complied with all rules for the Olympic tournament. Both also competed in Tokyo in 2021 and did not win medals.
Khelif and Lin had been disqualified from the 2023 world championships run by the IBA which said they failed eligibility tests.
Trump has signed an executive order, titled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, which aims to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports.
The next Summer Games come to Los Angeles in July 2028, during Trump's presidential term, and he urged the IOC last week to change everything "having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject".
Top-tier Olympic sports track and field, swimming and cycling already exclude athletes who went through male puberty from competing in women's events. The IOC have been approached for comment.
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