Bodybuilding champ arrested in doping raid (FOXSPORTS.com.au)

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Poilce smash drugs ring

POLICE in Poland have arrested a former German bodybuilding champion on suspicion of leading an international ring that traffics anabolic steroids, police spokesman Pawel Biedziak said.

“We worked closely with the German authorities to arrest Boris K.,” Biedziak said.

The two police forces spent two months gathering evidence against the suspect, whom Polish law allows to be identified only by his first name and last initial, before taking the decision to arrest him, the police said.

The suspect was arrested in the small northwestern Polish town of Kielpin.

He is accused of heading up a ring of steroid traffickers which sold the banned substances via the internet.

According to the olice, the suspect left Germany and set up shop in Poland after several members of his network were caught in possession of banned substances.

“When he arrived in Poland, Boris K. turned an old shop into a bodybuilding gym. He then used his personal website to send messages to his network,” Biedziak said.

A decision on whether to extradite Boris K. to Germany could be taken today, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Gdansk, Grazyna Wawryniuk, was quoted by Poland's PAP news agency as saying.

In Germany, police carried out a series of raids in Berlin and other regions as part of an investigation into the international traffic of anabolic steroids.

Forty-seven locations were searched in Berlin, in the eastern region of Brandenburg and the northern region of Lower Saxony, a police spokesman said.

Agence France-Presse


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Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:33:26 GMT