The Civil Guard has found cards and listings with the names of near 200 cyclists in the six registries conducted during the operation sent the day before yesterday against the dopaje in the sport. The cyclists, as much Spanish as of other countries, are fitted in equipment of elite of the sport of the pedal and the image of many of them is recorded by cameras placed by the military institution before the door from the apartment to which they went for the extraction of blood. In addition, the investigators have located thousands of dose of dopantes substances, like anabolizantes-steroids, hormones and even EPO and hormones of growth of Chinese manufacture, as well as medicines of this type coming from a German hospital. The Civil Guard released yesterday with cautions to Manolo Saiz, director of the Liberty Safe, by problems of arrested hypertension and has predicted to today make judicial available to the other four.
The investigation of Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) of the Civil Guard, initiate in February last after receiving several denunciations over a plot that made illegal practices of dopaje, has put in the open a network that provided dopantes products “to sportsmen of high level”. The agents made first searches in hotels where the integral assumptions of the group lodged to verify the veracity of the denounced thing.
The agents registered sweepings of these hotels, where they found bags of empty blood and syringes. The following step was to center the places where it operated the plot. The investigators located two floors in the district of Chamberí, in the streets of Alonso Cano and Zurbano, where supposedly lengthy doctors worked both: Eufemiano Fuentes, gynecologist and personal doctor of numerous cyclists, and Jose Luis Merino Batres.
Immediately they placed cameras in the doors of those two floors, through which they could obtain images of tens of sportsmen who entered and left those floors. Only once others until in average dozen of occasions. Those images have allowed to identify known cyclists, but there are images of sportsmen whose names are ignored.
With these data, the holder of the Court of Instruction number 31 of Madrid ordered the five haltings to them executed the day before yesterday. One of first stopped was the own Manolo Saiz. This one was located in a cafeteria of the street Pío XII where it waited for Eufemiano Fuentes, that arrived at the establishment carrying a cooled stock market. The agents observed like, minutes later, was Saiz the one that left the bar with that stock market, that, among other products, took Sinactene, a type of cortisone.
The agents stopped to Saiz when she went in his car and during the registry they found in being able of the sport director 60,000 euros, in tickets of euro and in Swiss francs. Later Sources, Merino Batres, the second director of the equipment Valencian Community, Jose Ignacio Labarta, and the ex- runner of mountain bicycle were stopped Alberto Leon Herránz.
The registries depararon surprises. In a house of the street of the Fallen ones of the Blue Division, property of Sources, the agents found 1,000 doses of anabolizantes, steroids and hormones, 100 bags of blood of half liter each one and documents on dopantes practices, as well as nominal plans of treatment of cyclists. In another floor of Sources, this one in the street of Alonso Cano, was located the machinery for the processing of the blood (a criogenizadora and a centrifugal machine), two suitcases of trip with steroids and anabolizantes and another hundred of bags, this time of blood without congealing, plasma and even of EPO (obtains an effect similar to the oxygenated blood) and hormones of growth coming from China.
The Civil Guard has located during the registries cards and listings with 200 names of cyclists, whom they refuse to reveal. The consulted sources of the investigation assure that there are cyclists “of the main equipment of the Spanish elite”. Names? “It is possible to be said that they are most of the well-known ones, except for Alexander Valverde”, they responded the mentioned sources.
The judge now tries to send the data found in the located bags of blood and names to Unión Ciclista Internacional (UCI) so that this one “acts consequently”. In fact, the judge will protest to the UCI that collates the blood analyses which they take place in Spain with the data banks of blood of runners of which it arranges to see if a real correspondence between one exists and another one. No longer there will be time to adopt measures before he concludes Giro of Italy, that finalizes the Sunday that comes, but it hopes that if carries consequences for the implied ones in the Tour, since in France the consumption of oxygenated blood yes is crime.
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