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Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 15:06
Russia's Olympic chief accuses anti-doping agency of financial violations
By Reuters
Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 15:06 By Reuters

In this Feb 28, 2020 photo, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin (left) and President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov attend a conference of Russia's Athletics Federation in Moscow. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

MOSCOW - Russia’s Olympic Committee accused the country’s anti-doping agency on Monday of presiding over serious financial irregularities, mounting pressure on the organisation tasked with clearing up Russia’s sporting image.

RUSADA was suspended in 2015 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics.

Yuri Ganus, the agency’s head, denies the allegation, casting it as part of a campaign against his organisation that he said hampers its anti-doping push.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, said an audit of anti-doping agency RUSADA’s financial activity in 2018 and 2019 had identified several “significant violations”.

The new assertions compounded corruption accusations aired against Ganus on social media last week, alleging that he had misappropriated the agency’s funds.

Though only on social media, those allegations prompted Ganus to convene a news conference on Friday where he rejected the accusations as “a pack of lies” designed to discredit his agency.

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“The attack continues,” Ganus told Reuters on Monday.

RUSADA was suspended in 2015 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics.

The agency was conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but was declared non-compliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data.

It has since appealed against a four-year ban on Russian athletes competing at major international sporting events under their flag as punishment for that alteration of laboratory data.

The case will be heard at the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in November.

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