Related cases:
- TJD-AD 2020-019 Disciplinary Decision - Football
September 3, 2020 - TJD-AD 2021-019 Disciplinary Decision - Football
September 23, 2021 - TJD-AD 2021-023 Disciplinary Decision - Football
December 2, 2021
Previously an 8 month period of ineligibility was imposed on the football player after he tested positive for the prohibited substance Triamcinolone acetonide. Also on 3 September 2020 the TJD-AD Panel decided to impose a 4 year period of ineligibility on the football player's Doctor for complicity
The TJD-AD concluded that this Doctor deliberately had attempted to mislead the Brazilian Doping Control Authority (ABCD) with falsified medical evidence. Additionally the TJD-AD decided on 4 July 2019 to impose a sanction of 3 years on two other doctors for their involvement in producing falsified medical information.
Following their conviction one of the latter doctors contacted TJD-AD and requested to receive all relevant documents because he had been unaware that in absentia a sanction had been imposed.
After review the TJD-AD decided on 23 September 2021 to annul the TJD-AD Decision of 4 July 2019 regarding this doctor and to refer the case back to the TJD-AD for a new trial.
Thereupon on 2 December 2021 the TJD-AD Panel decided to dismiss the charges and to acquit the doctor. The Panel deemed that there was no evidence that this doctor acted intentionally in complicity with the other convicted doctors.
Hereafter in January 2022 ABCD appealed this acquittal Decision of 2 December 2021 with the TJD-AD Appeal Tribunal.
The Rapporteur assessed the Appealed Decision and the filed evidence in the related cases and determines that there are no grounds to conclude that the doctor had acted intentionally in complicity with the other doctors and the football player.
Therefore the TJD-AD Appeal Panel decides on 10 March 2022 to dismiss the appeal and to confirm the Appealed Decision regarding the acquittal of the doctor.
