Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has found out that former cycling champion Jan Ullrich made 24 trips to Madrid to use the doping services of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Between February 2005 and May 2006, Ullrich made eight secret trips to Madrid. The flights were organized by Rudy Pevenage, an Ullrich confidante who used to be his adviser at Team T-Mobile, his former sponsor. Pevenage himself flew to Madrid 15 times for short stays between December 2003 and April 2006 to meet the Spanish doping network, according to the investigators. BKA experts found evidence of the trips on a computer they confiscated in a raid on Pevenage's home. Technicians reconstructed data that had been deleted from the computer's hard drive, according to files held by the Bonn public prosecutor's office. Authorities had investigated Ullrich since July 2006 for alleged fraud and closed the case in March 2008 after Ullrich paid a €250,000 fine ($373,000).
Between February 2005 and May 2006, Ullrich made eight secret trips to Madrid. The flights were organized by Rudy Pevenage, an Ullrich confidante who used to be his adviser at Team T-Mobile, his former sponsor. Pevenage himself flew to Madrid 15 times for short stays between December 2003 and April 2006 to meet the Spanish doping network, according to the investigators.
BKA experts found evidence of the trips on a computer they confiscated in a raid on Pevenage's home. Technicians reconstructed data that had been deleted from the computer's hard drive, according to files held by the Bonn public prosecutor's office. Authorities had investigated Ullrich since July 2006 for alleged fraud and closed the case in March 2008 after Ullrich paid a €250,000 fine ($373,000).
