Operation Aderlass: More athletes in its sights

“The investigations in Austria are far from complete. “I recently had interviews with three defendants again,” said the Austrian chief investigator Franz Schwarzenbacher on the fourth day of the trial against Mark S. in front of the Munich II regional court. However, these people had no direct connection to the Erfurt sports doctor, who the public prosecutor had accused of extensive doping practices over several years accuses. Schwarzenbacher also gave a detailed insight into the work of the investigators. This included telephone and communication monitoring of the suspects as well as shadowing. Ultimately, 80 officers were deployed in the sensational raid at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in February 2019 - including the Austrian special unit Cobra. “Not because we were afraid of the ‘perpetrators,’ but because the apartment was protected by a thick iron door,” said Schwarzenbacher. As early as 2014, when the Austrian cross-country skier and later key witness Johannes Dürr was first convicted as a doping offender, a relationship between him and the main defendant became known. However, Dürr declared at the time that he had never received doping substances from S. Only after the ARD documentary in which Dürr confessed to doping did he make a far-reaching statement to the investigators, which was the start of the joint investigation by Austrian and German authorities.

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Operation Aderlass: More athletes in its sights

In the course of the investigation into Operation Aderlass, other people have apparently been targeted by doping hunters.

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