The Kuwaiti announced last month that he was officially resuming his role as President of the IBF less than six months after being forced to step down following allegations of serious financial irregularities.

In the letter, Sheikh Talal has accused Martin Faba, who temporarily took over as President, of deliberately allowing the IBF to get into debt.

The letter sent by Geneva-based lawyers Reymond & Associes officially confirmed that Sheikh Talal had returned as head of the world governing body.

The IBF website has recently been updated and again shows Sheikh Talal as its President.

"We hereby confirm that our client resumed his position as President of the International Bowling Federation as announced in his letter of October 4, 2022," Reymond & Associes wrote in a letter seen by insidethegames.

"In his capacity as ad interim President until then, Mr Martin Faba is therefore no longer entitled to act in such a capacity.

"Furthermore, it recently become apparent that some members of the IBF Executive Committee (sic) are intending to and attempting to create a rival organisation to the IBF and to this end they have purposely, in particular Mr Martin Faba, allowed the IBF to sink into debt and to be temporarily without premises."

In August, the IBF terminated its lease agreement at the Maison du Sport International in Lausanne to save money.

"Such behaviour constitutes a serious breach of these EC Members’ duties (see notably Art. 2.2.1 of IBF’s Code of Ethics) and clearly engage in their personal liability for the damage that has caused to our IBF, Sheikh Talal, in his capacity as IBF President, therefore reserves all the right of the federation against them," Sheikh Talal's lawyers wrote.

"These EC Members must thus resign and will be replaced by people who are loyal and faithful to the IBF and who have the quality expected of leaders of a world sport federation."

Following the decision by Sheikh Talal to return as President of the IBF, the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) has cancelled plans to hold an international summit on December 6 which it had invited leading officials to attend.

"[The] USBC arrived the decision to cancel the summit after consulting with several leaders in the international bowling community and IBF," it wrote in a letter addressed to "USBC Hosted Summit Invitee" and which insidethegames has seen.

"It has become evident there is not an agreement about who is or should be leading [the] IBF at this time.

"Unfortunately, this issue overshadows matters.

"As we previously communicated, USBC has no position on who is President of [the] IBF or who serves on the IBF Executive Committee.

"This topic was not the purpose of the summit.

"USBC's only interest in helping [the] IBF have good governance practices long term."

The USBC, based in Arlington in Texas, revealed that it now plans to host "a smaller working group focussed on drafting proposed changes to IBF Statues," which it plans to present at the next IBF Congress.

"As before, USBC's only objective is to help IBF develop good governance practices so it can be operationally successful with financial transparency," the national governing body wrote in the letter signed by its President Melissa McDaniel and executive director Chad Murphy.

The US is bowling’s top country with 70 million players, but the USBC denied that the plan of the summit was to reach an agreement on establishing a new world governing body.

"We want to reiterate that USBC does not support creation of a rival International Federation and USBC does not have an opinion on who leads the IBF," McDaniel and Murphy wrote.

Faba, President of the Pan American Bowling Federation, meanwhile, has reverted to his previous position at the IBF of first vice-president.

The Costa Rican has denied there is any plan to set up a rival organisation to the IBF, which has been plunged into crisis by revelations from insidethegames about Sheikh Talal.

Sheikh Talal had stepped down in May after insidethegames exclusively reported allegations had been made that money amounting to more than $10 million (£9 million/€10.3 million) was transferred in 2021 from the IBF and Asian Bowling Federation accounts to a personal account.

The allegations led to the Olympic Council of Asia banning Sheikh Talal from attending any of it events.

Last month, Faba had claimed insidethegames' exclusive story that Sheikh Talal was planning to return as IBF President was "lies".

"One thing is that Sheikh wants to get back and a different thing is the legal part of it," Faba told insidethegames.

"Besides that, no meeting has been held and I have not see any [members of the] Board supporting him on his desire."

Faba has now confirmed in a letter to Reymond & Associes that there is no opposition to the return of Sheikh Talal.

"We are prepared to acknowledge that Sheikh Talal has returned as President of IBF," Faba wrote in a letter on IBF-headed notepaper earlier this month.

He has, however, rejected calls for key officials to step down from the IBF.

"Neither the accusation that some members of the IBF Executive Board are trying to create a rival organization (sic) nor reference to liability of debt are relevant to this discussion and will be dealt with in the official and appropriate manner at an Executive Committee meeting," Faba wrote.

"The request for resignation of elected and employed officers is rejected."