Versions from the test tube

Former Director of the Anti -Doping Center Grigory Rodchenkov himself traded doping, says TFR. It is claimed that such testimonies gave witnesses in the case, which last month was instituted against a cursory official. The case is qualified under part 1 of Article 201 (abuse of authority), which provides for the four years of the colony.

Rodchenkov acquired forbidden drugs in the United States, and then sold to the athletes, promising that he would hide the presence of doping in their samples, the TFR said. As noted, "the investigation has reason to believe that Rodchenkov was not just an executor, namely the author and organizer of a number of such schemes."

The destruction of Rodchenkov doping industry of Russian athletes of the TFR explains precisely the desire to hide the fact of their trade for prohibited drugs.

The Investigative Department also recalls that the sister of the official Marina Rodchenkova in 2012 was convicted of part 3 of article 234 of the Criminal Code (illegal circulation of potent substances that are not narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, largely large). She was charged with doping trade. It is noted that the state and control, in the production of which it was the case, did not establish who supplied the Rodchenko doping. “Therefore, now investigators of the Investigative Committee intend to check, including these facts,” the department says.

The report refers to "both criminal cases" against Rodchenkov. As can be concluded from the foregoing, the second case is instituted for him or will be instituted precisely under Article 234.

The TFR also called the emergence of new defendants in the case.

Rodchenkov resigned in November 2015 at the very beginning of a doping scandal. In the future, he left Russia and settled in the United States.

On May 12, 2016, The New York Times published an interview with a former official in which he accused dozens of Russian athletes of using doping , including 15 gold medalists. According to him, this was part of a carefully developed and over the years of the state program. Rodchenkov admitted that he developed three mixtures from the forbidden drugs that he mixed with alcohol and gave athletes.

Russian anti-doping experts and special services, continued the cursory official, replaced the doping tests of the athletes of the Russian team with “pure” samples, taken a few months before the Olympic competitions. By the end of the games, about 100 urine samples were replaced in this way.

After that, the TFR initiated the case against Rodchenkov. At the end of June, the department sent the US authorities a request to interrogate the former official . As far as the current message of the TFR allows you to conclude, they have not yet received an answer from the United States in Moscow.