Get a fool, America

The Investigative Committee intends to demand the extradition of the former former director of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, who emigrated to the United States and became an informant of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA). This was reported by the press service of the TFR.

“The investigation collected enough evidence that Rodchenkov destroyed the doping tests of athletes in violation of the requirements of the international standard for laboratories of the World Anti -Doping Agency and the letter of the agency about storing such samples,” the arguments of the independent expert of WADA (Richard) of McLaren on the winter Olympiad in Sochi are refuted. The anti-doping laboratory of positive doping industry of Russian athletes on negative, as well as on the existence of a certain state doping program in Russia for the athletes to conquer the maximum number of medals. "

The Investigative Committee also accuses Rodchenkov and the former head of the Doping Control Department of Timofei Sobolevsky that they, on behalf of McLaren and WADA, offered the ex-director of the anti-doping center of Maria Dikunets to transfer the database of the primary testing of athletes "in exchange for monetary compensation, refuge in the USA or Canada, and the citizenship of one of these states." In this regard, in relation to Rodchenkov, Sobolevsky "and other unidentified persons", a criminal case has been instituted under part 2 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of the preliminary investigation).

Rodchenkov resigned in November 2015 against the backdrop of a doping scandal that began, after which he left Russia. In May 2016, The New York Times published an interview with a former official in which he accused dozens of Russian athletes , including 15 gold medalists, doping. Rodchenkov said that the state doping program operated in the country for many years.

Rodchenkov admitted that he compiled three mixtures of the forbidden drugs that he mixed with alcohol and gave athletes. Meanwhile, Russian anti-doping experts and employees of special services replaced the doping tests of the Russian national team at “pure” samples, taken a few months before the Olympic competitions.

A month with a little later, on June 18, 2016, the SKR announced the case against Rodchenkov . Then it was investigated in part 1 of article 201 (abuse of authority). According to the plot, Rodchenkov from selfish motives sold doping drugs purchased in the United States. It was also stated that he, at the direction of WADA functionaries, could be destroyed by doping tests.

In August of the same year, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the property of a former official - a land plot and a house in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow Region. However, in December , the Moscow City Court canceled this decision .

On September 21, the Basmanny District Court in absentia arrested Rodchenkov in a heavier part 2 of article 201 of the Criminal Code (abuse of powers, entailing grave consequences), which provides for up to 10 years of the colony. He was put on the international wanted list. The defense of the emigrant appealed to his absentee arrest.