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Spanish District Court 302_2016 WADA, UCI, CONI & RFEC vs Eufemiano Claudio Fuentes Rodríguez, José Ignacio Labarta Barrera, Manuel Saiz Balbás, Yolanda Fuentes Rodríguez & Vicente Belda Vicedo
June 10, 2016
Órgano: Juzgado de lo Penal
Sede: Madrid
Sección: 21
Nº de Recurso: 52/2012
Nº de Resolución: 144/2013
Procedimiento: PENAL - PROCEDIMIENTO ABREVIADO/SUMARIO
Ponente: JULIA PATRICIA SANTAMARIA MATESANZ
Tipo de Resolución: Sentencia
In the Operación Puerto doping case the Guardia Civil arrested on 22 May 2016 the Spanish sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes together with other accomplices. In Fuentes' clinic and offices in Madrid, 186 blood bags were found belonging to professional athletes and marked with coded names, besides EPO, steroids, and growth hormone.
The scandal that grew from the arrests implicated well-known road racing cyclists Fuentes continually denied having performed illegal operations. He said that he did not work exclusively with cyclists but had other athletes as clients such as footballers and tennis players.
In January 2013 the Operacion Puerto trial was conducted against Fuentes and other accomplices under Spanish criminal law covering the illicit administration of medication, and not under the anti-doping legislation that exists in Spain today but did not exist back in 2006.
On the 29 April 2013 Fuentes was found guilty and given a 1-year suspended prison sentence.
In the Puerto trial the Spanish judge also ruled on a request from RFEC, WADA, UCI and CONI to hand over blood bags to the Spanish anti-doping agency. However the judge ordered on 29 April 2013 to destroy the blood bags, but the anti-doping agency appealed this decision.
Hereafter additional appeals where filed by the RFEC, WADA, UCI and CONI), as well as by the prosecution.
