2024-01-11 08:12:24
The head of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Cáceres, Aída María de la Cruz de la Torre, who is investigating an alleged “criminal group” led by the doctor Marcos Maynar-who is accused of supplying doping substances to professional cyclists-, has requested that the Prosecutor’s Office issue its final report on the seven people who are being investigated in the procedure, according to sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura. Once the document from the Public Ministry is at her disposal, the magistrate will decide whether she processes or files the accusations, the sources consulted highlight.
Among those investigated, the participation of a collaborator of the doctor who worked as Maynar’s assistant at the University stands out; but also that of the former professional cyclist and former sports director Vicente Belda; who according to the prosecution’s accusation would have acted as an intermediary. The latter’s son Vicente Belda Garcíawho was employed by the Astana cycling team, is another of the suspects.
The Colombian cyclist has never been charged in this procedure. Miguel Ángel ‘Supermán’ López. However, he was fired from Astana for his “probable connection” with the controversial doctor. In July 2023, the International Cycling Union (UCI) suspended the South American athlete for “use and possession of a prohibited substance in the weeks prior to the Giro 2022”. The club sponsored by the Government of Kazakhstan also dispensed with the services of Vicente Belda García.
“First level”
Sources in the case explained to this editorial team that the transcription of the conversations recorded by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) by court order evidence the links that They kept “top-level” cyclists with those allegedly responsible for the doping network. Other sources close to the accused deny that the Beldas appear in the recordings made by the Civil Guard during the 2022 Italian round.
On November 9, the team Cara Rural-Seguros RGA announced that he had filed a complaint with the Civil Guard considering that he had been a victim of “a partial, biased and decontextualized dissemination of a police report” included in the Maynar case. The letter argued that the information that appeared referred to “a small part of a judicial procedure for investigating possible crimes against public health and sport in which neither the team nor any of its members were involved. members”.
The dissemination of this documentation, the team continues in its statement, was protected by anonymity “with the sole objective of harming the team and its components” and with “the intention to damage the reputation of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA“.
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The police investigations began after UCO agents detected in January 2021 that the physician Marcos Maynar, in collaboration with other people who acted as intermediaries, they received and sent postal packages containing supposedly prohibited substancesas specified in an order dated October 13, 2022 from the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Cáceres.
One of the packages contained capsules that included dichloroacetic acid and Actovegin Forte, substances whose use is not authorized in Spain. For this reason, the judge and magistrates of Cáceres considered that they could be committing “an alleged crime of illicit drug trafficking.
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