SK: Rodchenkov made changes to the Moscow laboratory database

The investigation has evidence of the deliberate introduction of changes by the former head of the Moscow laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, and unidentified persons into the database of the laboratory "in order to distort the parameters and indicators of doping samples of Russian athletes." This was reported in a press release from the UK.

According to the agency, the former management of the laboratory (Rodchenkov resigned in November 2015) remotely connected to the database from IP addresses registered in the United States and Germany in 2015-2016 - and changes could be made to the database during these connections.

Commenting on WADA data on data manipulation in 2018-2019, the UK noted that all this time they were stored on computers in the Moscow Laboratory, and its employees had access to them.

Updated . The World Anti-Doping Agency said it had expressed its position on the manipulation of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory in previous statements. Previously, WADA expressed the opinion that Rodchenkov did not make changes to the laboratory's database after leaving for the United States.

At the same time, the Russian Investigative Committee has information about the transfer by Rodchenkov, in the framework of cooperation with WADA, of an alternative copy of the electronic archive of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, but its origin and the truth of the information contained in it has not been established.

Investigative Committee of Russia

• Rodchenkov left for the United States in early 2016, after which he became a WADA informant. He provided the agency with data indicating the concealment of doping in Russian sports, after which the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him.
• Due to manipulations with the database of the Moscow laboratory, WADA suspended Russia from the Olympics and World Championships for four years. The agency indicated that someone made changes to the database until the beginning of 2019, although by that time the database had been seized by the Investigative Committee as part of the investigation into the Rodchenkov case.