In October 2015 the Spanish Agency for the Protection of Health in Sport (Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte, AEPSAD) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Ukrainian respondent E40 after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substance carphedon.
AEPSAD managed in November 2015 to contact the respondent in the Ukrain and to inform him about the violation. The respondent submitted in December 2015 a letter to AEPSAD with several arguments in his defence and a plea to impose a 6 month sanction. AEPSAD considered the respondent’s letter confusing also due to the respondent’s poor knowledge of the language and without an explanation or justification about the positive test result and the presence of the substance in his body.
Considering the circumstances AEPSAD decides on 13 January 2016 to impose a 1 year period of ineligibility on the respondent starting on the date of the sample collection, i.e. on 31 august 2015.
