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Berlin, Germany (AHN) - The crackdown on steroid distribution rings is expanding on a worldwide scale. Ten people were arrested on Tuesday in Germany by German and Polish police for allegedly supplying anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to bodybuilder throughout Europe.
The raid was the most recent action taken by police against suspected dope suppliers. The World Anti-Doping Agency encourages these actions as a compliment to its drug testing programs.
The chairman of the agency, Dick Pound, told the New York Times that police assistance is crucial in stopping steroid distribution.
"There are lots of things that the sports themselves can do, but they have no power to go and seize documents or compel evidence or anything like that, which is why governments have to be involved. The combination of the two is what is going to make this effective."
German investigators said they don't believe any other sport outside of bodybuilding was involved in the ring.
240 officers were involved in the raid. 10 suspects were arrested and 52 building were searched in Germany and Poland. Most of the investigation was centered in Berlin and Hanover.
Investigators have pointed to a German bodybuilder named Boris K as the ring-leader of the operation. They claim he organized the steroid distribution via telephone and the Internet.
The drugs allegedly were smuggled from Thailand and sold to bodybuilders in Germany and elsewhere in Europe at a profit of at least 500 percent, according to German police. No links to doping in other sports was suspected.
He said that some 240 police officers participated in the raids, which also seized cars loaded with anabolic steroids and some 70,000 euros ($90,000) in cash.
Schmidt said that the doping ring had no connection to any sports besides bodybuilding.
Berlin prosecutor Thorsten Cloidt told reporters: "This is a European wide network."
While German police were busy across the border, Polish police arrested Boris K., a German bodybuilder suspected of leading the German-based gang that made, smuggled and sold anabolic steroids, Polish police said in a statement.
The police said a number of Boris K.'s associates were also arrested.
Boris K. had been hiding out in Kielpino, a village near the northern Polish city of Gdansk since other members of his gang were caught smuggling steroids worth 100,000 euros a few months ago, police said.
Boris K. had continued to lead the Germany-based group by phone and email, they said. They said his group promoted steroids on a Web site, which they also used to transfer secret information and codes to each other.
Polish police said they had observed Boris K. for months before getting the go-ahead from German police to arrest him.
Gdansk police spokeswoman Danuta Wolk-Karaczewska said Boris K. was 31 years old. She said he was arrested in a raid on a house in Kielpino at around 0400 GMT this morning. Hundreds of steroid pills and marijuana were found in the raid. (Additional reporting by Malgorzata Rakowiec in Gdansk and Matt Reynolds and Natalia Sitarska in Warsaw)
BORIS K. = BORIS KLEIN 3X GERMAN HEAVYWEIGHT NATIONAL CHAMP
The raid was the most recent action taken by police against suspected dope suppliers. The World Anti-Doping Agency encourages these actions as a compliment to its drug testing programs.
The chairman of the agency, Dick Pound, told the New York Times that police assistance is crucial in stopping steroid distribution.
"There are lots of things that the sports themselves can do, but they have no power to go and seize documents or compel evidence or anything like that, which is why governments have to be involved. The combination of the two is what is going to make this effective."
German investigators said they don't believe any other sport outside of bodybuilding was involved in the ring.
240 officers were involved in the raid. 10 suspects were arrested and 52 building were searched in Germany and Poland. Most of the investigation was centered in Berlin and Hanover.
Investigators have pointed to a German bodybuilder named Boris K as the ring-leader of the operation. They claim he organized the steroid distribution via telephone and the Internet.
The drugs allegedly were smuggled from Thailand and sold to bodybuilders in Germany and elsewhere in Europe at a profit of at least 500 percent, according to German police. No links to doping in other sports was suspected.
He said that some 240 police officers participated in the raids, which also seized cars loaded with anabolic steroids and some 70,000 euros ($90,000) in cash.
Schmidt said that the doping ring had no connection to any sports besides bodybuilding.
Berlin prosecutor Thorsten Cloidt told reporters: "This is a European wide network."
While German police were busy across the border, Polish police arrested Boris K., a German bodybuilder suspected of leading the German-based gang that made, smuggled and sold anabolic steroids, Polish police said in a statement.
The police said a number of Boris K.'s associates were also arrested.
Boris K. had been hiding out in Kielpino, a village near the northern Polish city of Gdansk since other members of his gang were caught smuggling steroids worth 100,000 euros a few months ago, police said.
Boris K. had continued to lead the Germany-based group by phone and email, they said. They said his group promoted steroids on a Web site, which they also used to transfer secret information and codes to each other.
Polish police said they had observed Boris K. for months before getting the go-ahead from German police to arrest him.
Gdansk police spokeswoman Danuta Wolk-Karaczewska said Boris K. was 31 years old. She said he was arrested in a raid on a house in Kielpino at around 0400 GMT this morning. Hundreds of steroid pills and marijuana were found in the raid. (Additional reporting by Malgorzata Rakowiec in Gdansk and Matt Reynolds and Natalia Sitarska in Warsaw)
BORIS K. = BORIS KLEIN 3X GERMAN HEAVYWEIGHT NATIONAL CHAMP
did ya read the statement that the police gave?.. that goverments need to help sports sanctioning bodies in getting gear use under control.. wtf.. the goverments are going to mettle even more in sports organizations..?? i thought if anything, european countries would be have a little more common sense than this way of thinking.. too bad..
