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March 10, 2022
On 4 July 2019 the Brazilian Sports Justice Anti-Doping Tribunal (TJD-AD) decided to impose a sanction of 3 years on two doctors because of complicity for their alleged involvement in producing falsified medical information committed by another doctor. The latter doctor received a sanction of 4 years regarding a football player who had used the substance Triamcinolone acetonide.
However the TJD-AD decided on 23 September 2021 to annul the TJD-AD Decision of 4 July 2019 against one of the first mentioned doctors and to refer the case back to the TJD-AD for a new trial. Apparently ABCD and TJD-AD had submitted their communications for this doctor to the wrong e-mail address and consequently he had not received the opportunity to present his defence.
The doctor denied the violation, neither that he was Athlete Support Personnel. He testified, corroborated by the Athlete in question, that he was not the personal doctor of the football player and had only 1 consult about his knee injury.
Thereupon the doctor had signed in good faith a medical document about the football player while he was unaware that it was falsified by the other convicted doctor.
The Rapporteur determines that the doctor acted as Athlete Support Personnel although there was no evidence that he acted intentionally and in complicity with the other convicted doctors.
Therefore the TJD-AD Panel decides on 2 December 2021 to dismiss the charges and to acquit the doctor.
