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Cyclingpro.net reports that these days the National Anti-Doping Court will announce most of the sanctions against those involved in the Altopack-Eppela cycling team, which is at the epicenter of the scandal.
Some sanctions have already been imposed. For example, Narciso Franceschi and his son Luca were expelled from sports for up to 30 years, their powers of disqualification until 2050.
Franceschi, who runs a cycling equipment store, also owned a house where, according to the record, the cyclists received prohibited preparations.
L. Franceschi was the owner of the Altopack-Eppela team.
Elso Frediani, the sports director of the latter team, should receive the same punishment, which will hear the verdict in the near future.
The three Italians were accused of falsifying data, trying to confuse doping control, transporting, possessing and complicating doping substances. Among the suspects were N. Franceschi’s wife and L. Franceschi’s mother, Maria Luisa Luciani.
Amrea cyclist and pharmacist Andrea Bianchi, accused of transporting and consuming prohibited substances and disqualified for seven years, was also sentenced.
Another rider, Matteo Alban, has been disqualified for four years for doping, with Maher Tounsi, Nico Colonna, Yuri Colonna, Francesco di Felice, and Dr. Daniele Tarsi facing a series of sentences.
We remind you that L. Rumš, who represented the Altopack-Eppela team in an amateur competition in Italy in May 2017, was found dead at his parents’ home in Lucca, Tuscany.
The day before the tragedy, the young man visited a local hospital because he was complaining of shortness of breath and passed out. However, the doctors did not find any health problems.
The disaster received a lot of media attention, as Linas was the son of one of the most famous Lithuanian cyclists of all time, Raimondas Rumšas.
The latter finished third in the most prestigious multi-day Tour de France in 2002, but was immediately suspected of anti-doping rule violations when police found a bunch of illicit drugs in his wife Edita’s car. A year later, doping was found in the body of R. Rumšs, he was disqualified.
Half a lip from the start became an open suspicion in September 2017, when police investigating L. Rumšas’ death found large amounts of doping substances during searches at the Altopack-Eppela team headquarters, the homes of those involved and other places.
Dozens of packages of amphetamines, insulin, liver stimulants, antianemic drugs for cancer patients were the trap of Italian officials.
Just a month later, a 25-year-old Lithuanian disqualified from the growth promoting preparation GRHP-6 was discovered in the body of L. Rumšs’ older brother, as well as cyclist Raimondas Rumšas.
In 2018, the first arrests began. A total of six people were arrested, 17 of whom entered the Italian suspect registry.
Some of the case material was leaked to local media.
The Il Tirreno newspaper announced that the Italian police have an audio recording in which it can be heard that E. Rumšienė accuses his son Raimondas by phone that “he had to better hide these preparations”.
According to Il Tirreno, the police also heard about the illicit drug hiding place while listening to Rums’ phone conversations: during a conversation between his father and son, Raimondas Jr.
R. Rumšas and his wife Edita settled in Italy while still actively playing sports, where they are raising two more children: a daughter Rasa and a son Renata.
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