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January 21, 2016
In March 2014 the Spanish police arrested 13 people in the police action operation Jimbo. Several Athletes were arrested whom operated in Lucena, Cantabria, Silla (Valencia), Marbella (Malaga), Almonte (Huelva) and Sevilla. After house searches the police confiscated blood bags, syringes, growth hormone, EPO and other doping substances.
The Spanish Agency for the Protection of Health in Sport (Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte, AEPSAD) has reported anti-doping rule violations against the respondent E04 for the possession, probably use, trafficking of epoetin Beta and recombinant Erythropoietin (rEPO) and use of forbidden methods.
In his defence the respondent argued that the substances where for his wife who suffered from anemia. But the police had evidence that packages where sent to other athletes.
The panel considers aggravating circumstances in this case.
Decision
- The sanction is a period of ineligibility of two years.