The ex-skier and doping sinner Johannes Dürr has been charged in Austria, among other things because of the commercial heavy sports fraud. The prosecutor Innsbruck accuses the 32-year-old in addition to their own doping, as an accomplice of the Erfurt Sports Medicine Mark S. acted. If convicted, Dürr faces up to five years imprisonment.
"He is accused in the charges that he has contributed to the doping of other athletes by passing growth hormone from the German sports physician to other athletes and has mediated other athletes for the purpose of self-blood doping to the German physician," it says in a statement the prosecutor Innsbruck.
According to the indictment, Dürr should also have given the Erfurt sports physician a special refrigerator for storing blood bags in 2015. Mark S., who is considered the mastermind of the alleged international doping network, is in custody in Munich.
Dürr had triggered with his statements the investigation that led to the "Operation Aderlass" at the Nordic World Ski Championships last February in Seefeld (Tyrol) and Erfurt. The 32-year-old was first transferred to the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 as a doping sinner. In an ARD interview, he admitted a few days after the raid in Seefeld that he also doped during his suspension continued. He was recently suspended for life by the Austrian Anti-Doping Law Commission.