FILE - This is a Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo of employees Natalya Bochkaryova, left, and Ilya Podolsky work at the Russian Anti Doping Agency RUSADA drug-testing laboratory in Moscow, Russia. Russia wants to hit dopers where it hurts _ in their bank accounts. In a push to restore Russia's sporting reputation after numerous doping scandals, the government has officially approved a plan to confiscate prize money and government grants from athletes who are found to be cheating. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko/File)
FILE - This is a Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo of employees Natalya Bochkaryova, left, and Ilya Podolsky work at the Russian Anti Doping Agency RUSADA drug-testing laboratory in Moscow, Russia. Russia wants to hit dopers where it hurts _ in their bank accounts. In a push to restore Russia's sporting reputation after numerous doping scandals, the government has officially approved a plan to confiscate prize money and government grants from athletes who are found to be cheating. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko/File) Credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko

Moscow — Russia wants to hit dopers where it hurts — in their bank accounts.

In a push to restore Russia’s sporting reputation after numerous doping scandals, the government has approved a plan to reclaim prize money and government grants from athletes who are found to be cheating.

Several Russian athletes have been able to hold onto large sums despite being caught doping.

In a package of anti-doping measures signed on Monday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Russian Sports Ministry and national sports federations to develop a scheme for “confiscating income and property from athletes, coaches, doctors and other specialists” involved in doping cases.

It wasn’t specified how this would be achieved. The Sports Ministry has previously faced allegations from World Anti-Doping Agency investigators that its own staff covered up doping.

Besides prize money from competitions, Russian athletes often get lavish rewards from the state, and many keep them even if they’re banned as drug cheats.

Gold medalists from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, for example, received $70,000 from a public-private fund, plus a white BMW SUV in a ceremony at the Kremlin. Regional governments also handed out apartments, cars and, in one case, even a horse.

Organizers of many international sports events require athletes to pay back prize money if they’re later disqualified over a failed drug test. However, enforcing these rules is difficult. The threat of further sporting sanctions is meaningless for an athlete who has retired or is banned for life.

NFL Football

Chiefs Promote Veach to GM

Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have promoted co-director of player personnel Brett Veach to general manager.

The appointment was announced on Monday, about 2½ weeks after Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt surprisingly fired John Dorsey, their GM of the past four years. Head coach Andy Reid’s contract was extended that same day.

Veach has begun his fifth season with the Chiefs, having spent his first two years with the team as a pro and college personnel analyst. He started his career in the NFL in Philadelphia, with three seasons as the assistant to Reid and three more as a scout for the Eagles.

Golf

Miller Staying at NBC

New York — Television viewers haven’t heard the last of Johnny Miller just yet.

Miller thought this might be his final year in the broadcast booth for NBC Sports so he could spend more time with his 23 grandchildren. But in a telephone interview on Monday, he said he will stick around for at least another year.

Miller said he’s surprised someone is not waiting in the wings to replace him. This is his 28th year working for NBC.

His deal was to expire at the end of this year, though he had an option for 2018.

Surfing

Wetsuit Pioneer Aptly Honored

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Thousands of surfers have taken to the waters off California in tribute to wetsuit pioneer Jack O’Neill.

O’Neill died last month at the age of 94. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported surfers gathered for a “paddle out” service near O’Neill’s cliffside Santa Cruz home.

Many of them wore O’Neill wetsuits and eye patches in honor of the covering O’Neill famously donned following a surfing injury.

O’Neill invented the first neoprene wetsuit in the 1950s, allowing surfers to stay longer in cold water.

NHL Hockey

Johnston Stays With Lightning

Tampa, Fla. — Tyler Johnson is staying with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The free-agent forward signed a new seven-year, $35 million deal to remain with the Lightning, General manager Steve Yzerman announced on Monday.

The 26-year-old Johnson had 19 goals and 26 assists in 66 games last season. He was tied for third on the Lightning in goals and power-play goals (six), and fifth with 45 points.

Boxing

Review Confirms Horn Win

San Juan, Puerto Rico — The World Boxing Organization said an independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn confirmed the outcome in favor of the Australian former schoolteacher.

A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called “Battle of Brisbane” on July 2 after Horn, fighting for his first world title, got a unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11-time world champion.

The WBO agreed to conduct a review, but said it couldn’t change the outcome unless there was evidence of fraud or a violation of law.

It appointed five judges from different countries to watch the bout without sound and released the outcome of the recount late Monday, showing three judges awarded the fight to Horn, one scored a draw and one judge awarded the fight to 38-year-old Pacquiao.