Austrian police reported on Wednesday at a news conference, how and why did it end up making the Wednesday morning drug raids.Video: AL:n Pekka Aalto and IL:n Santtu Silvennoinen pui the average week of doping news on the spot Seefeldissä.
the Ski world championships in Seefeldissä organised doping raids is taken from the average during the week caught a total of five athletes. The race venue is captured also two other persons.
Austrian police have confirmed that the captured athletes, among them two austrians, two Estonian and one Kazakh. The police investigation leading Dieter Csefan confirm Finnish time at 16 at a news conference that one athlete was taken in a hotel room caught in the act, a needle in his arm.
the Austrian Kronen Zeitung newspaper, according to the apprehended austrians are Dominik Baldauf and Max Picciuto , which the latter had to attend on Wednesday visited 15 km competition. Pike was not seen at the starting line. Suspects are also Estonia Andreas Veerpalu and Karel Tammjärv of Kazakhstan Alexei Poltora , which should be involved in the Wednesday competition, but also none of them eventually left the track.
on Wednesday conducted a total of 16 home search. At the same time, Seefeld-raid with a similar attack also in Germany, Erfurt. The target of the attack was a German medical Mark Schmidt clinics. Schmidt has combined years ago cycling blood doping revelation.
– we Have found from Germany to the illegal doping laboratory and the preparation of doping use, the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office representative Hansjörg Mayr said Wednesday at a briefing.
we Suspect that Erfurtista manually rotated the organization has provided athletes with doping substances for years in order to improve such performance and to achieve self-economic benefits, the police bulletin described.
according to the report, studies of the international network to uncover have continued for months. Police representatives told a news conference how the loop network around intensified in recent days.
we have Received information that the head of the organization is to spot the ski world championships. We know that he will meet some of the athletes here. That season we ended up to arrest them (the athletes) here Seefeldissä, Csefan said at a news conference.
We have had the world cup during the continuous surveillance. We have seen these five athletes to meet this criminal group led. In our view, it is an organised criminal group, which has worked for years. We can’t say how many people this has involved, but we are confident that the organization has committed crimes over a period of five years.
Csefanin according to the police at this stage is information only for the fact that the offences would have been involved only in the already mentioned countries – Austria, Estonia and Kazakhstan – athletes. More arrests may, however, be in store later.
– We have a lot of evidence, Csefan said.
Kronen Zeitung, according to police investigating doping offences serious fraud, which can be sentenced in Austria up to ten years in prison.
Source: ARD, Kronen Zeitung, Expressen
the Investigation led to a Dieter Csefan (left) and the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office representative Hansjörg Mayr told Wednesday a news conference Seefeldissä and Erfurt organized doping raid. AOP
