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05-26-06, 05:01 PM
Liberty Seguros quits their sponsorship http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/may06/may25news3
Saiz caught w/ frozen blood & 60,000 euros
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9913.0.html
from procycling
http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2136
Saiz was in a Madrid café with former ONCE and Kelme team doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and with José Luis Merino Batres, the director of a haematology clinic, when the trio were recorded on videotape by the UCO on Tuesday. Saiz is reported to have entered the café with a briefcase that was later found to contain 60,000 (£45,000) euros worth of currency in both euros and Swiss francs. Fuentes is reported to have been seen entering the café, located in the same street as Merino’s clinic, with a cold-bag. Minutes later, Saiz left the café with the cold-bag and was later detained, when a search of the bag turned up bags of blood and alleged doping products.
As well as this meeting in the café, the UCO team are said to have recordings of many leading athletes from several sports entering and leaving Merino’s clinic. The recordings have apparently been made over the past three months, although former Kelme rider Jesus Manzano asserted on Spanish TV today that he had been treated in the clinic back in 2003.
According to Spanish sports dailies AS and Marca, Fuentes and Merino have allegedly been charging between 40,000 and 60,000 euros per season for blood ‘cleaning’ and other treatment.
The UCO team are also said to have found 200 bags of blood and plasma in Merino’s clinic, each carrying an identity code belonging to different athletes. It is not known whether the UCO team know the identities of the athletes involved, but Guardia Civil director-general Joan Mesquida said today that the UCO is still examining the evidence found at the clinic and five other sites. He did reveal that “more names of well-known personalities will come to light”.
A Guardia Civil unit that specialises in drug-related offences is still believed to be analysing suspicious material found during the search of six premises on Tuesday, including two apartments owned by Fuentes. Among products reportedly found were substances used for doping by athletes, as well as equipment used to transfuse and store blood.
EFE also said that video tapes of people related to professional sport entering and leaving some of these premises were being studied
200 identifiable athletes? daaaaayum :eek:
Saiz caught w/ frozen blood & 60,000 euros
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9913.0.html
from procycling
http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2136
Saiz was in a Madrid café with former ONCE and Kelme team doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and with José Luis Merino Batres, the director of a haematology clinic, when the trio were recorded on videotape by the UCO on Tuesday. Saiz is reported to have entered the café with a briefcase that was later found to contain 60,000 (£45,000) euros worth of currency in both euros and Swiss francs. Fuentes is reported to have been seen entering the café, located in the same street as Merino’s clinic, with a cold-bag. Minutes later, Saiz left the café with the cold-bag and was later detained, when a search of the bag turned up bags of blood and alleged doping products.
As well as this meeting in the café, the UCO team are said to have recordings of many leading athletes from several sports entering and leaving Merino’s clinic. The recordings have apparently been made over the past three months, although former Kelme rider Jesus Manzano asserted on Spanish TV today that he had been treated in the clinic back in 2003.
According to Spanish sports dailies AS and Marca, Fuentes and Merino have allegedly been charging between 40,000 and 60,000 euros per season for blood ‘cleaning’ and other treatment.
The UCO team are also said to have found 200 bags of blood and plasma in Merino’s clinic, each carrying an identity code belonging to different athletes. It is not known whether the UCO team know the identities of the athletes involved, but Guardia Civil director-general Joan Mesquida said today that the UCO is still examining the evidence found at the clinic and five other sites. He did reveal that “more names of well-known personalities will come to light”.
A Guardia Civil unit that specialises in drug-related offences is still believed to be analysing suspicious material found during the search of six premises on Tuesday, including two apartments owned by Fuentes. Among products reportedly found were substances used for doping by athletes, as well as equipment used to transfuse and store blood.
EFE also said that video tapes of people related to professional sport entering and leaving some of these premises were being studied
200 identifiable athletes? daaaaayum :eek: