Former Director of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov organized the delivery of prohibited substances to athletes, promising to help hide the results of doping tests, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia.
Investigators also announced that it has established the motives for the destruction of Rodchenkova more than 1.4 thousand doping samples Russian athletes.
“The investigation believes that he destroyed the samples to hide the implementation of prohibited means to escape from criminal liability, providing for a much stricter punishment than violation of the standards of WADA”, said the representative of Department Vladimir Markin.
In the end, due to the destruction of these samples were not only harmed the image of the Russian Federation as a whole, but never managed to learn which competitor has used doping, according to investigators.
Rodchenkov resigned as head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory and left for the USA shortly after the publication of the report of WADA in November 2015, where it was alleged that he personally ordered the destruction of the doping tests before checking in December 2014.
In mid-may Rodchenkov said in an interview that during the Olympics in Sochi, dozens of Russian athletes, including gold medalists, was dope.
According to Rodchenkova, he has personally developed three mixtures of illegal drugs, which were then mixed athletes in alcohol – men’s the whiskey and women in a Martini. In addition, he claimed that intelligence officers replaced the doping samples of the athletes.
Rodchenkov said this in the wall of the room where they kept the urine samples, made a hole with a width of the hand through which intelligence officers handed bottles of urine in a secret laboratory next door. There was changed to urine collected for six months before.
After the interview, the Russian authorities brought against Rodchenkova a criminal case about abuse of authority. A week ago, the investigative Committee sent to U.S. law enforcement authorities with the request to interrogate a former official.
