In the News: Spanish doping investigation hits legal complications

From the article:
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MADRID, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Spain's investigation against a doping ring
in cycling has become bogged down in a complex series of legal
disputes that could prevent action against those implicated in the
scandal, daily El Mundo reported on Friday.. . .

.. . . El Mundo said the investigation was in danger of running aground
because of legal objections raised by several of those implicated in
the scandal.

Saiz has brought a case claiming irregularities in one of the
documents, while cyclists from the former Liberty Seguros team have
taken another out accusing the Spanish Cycling Federation of revealing
protected data and damaging their reputations.

The paper said legal sources informed them that the case against
Fuentes could be dropped if the blood and plasma from the transfusions
had been conserved correctly.

They also said the evidence collected could only be used in legal
cases and not as the basis for sporting punishments against any of the
implicated cyclists.

El Mundo said this was the reason why charges against Italian cyclist
Ivan Basso had been dropped by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)
earlier this month.

Earlier this week, German Jan Ullrich published a Spanish court
document on his Web site saying he was not being accused of any
offence as a result of Operation Puerto.
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Read it at
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breaking...174845,00.html

















J. Spaceman

Earlier this week, German Jan Ullrich published a Spanish court
document on his Web site saying he was not being accused of any
offence as a result of Operation Puerto.
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This is the document they are talking about --
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte...161816268.html

Also available at http://www.jan-ullrich.de/certificado.pdf










J. Spaceman