The physician Mark S. has placed as the main accused in the blood doping process is a comprehensive confession and manipulation since 2012 given. In one of his lawyers statement read out from Erfurt, admitted on Tuesday to have from that year, especially in Winter and cyclists are taken care of. New and previously unknown names of former customers, he mentioned.
Mark S. stressed that it was not him the money, but that he had worked only to cover costs. “I have achieved with Doping, no gain,” it said in the statement. Of the athletes he’d normally receive per season 5000 euros as a basic amount for medical care – intensive measures cost more. He had cost a large expenditure, for example, by means of special Equipment for blood treatment, as well as travel and hotel.
In addition, he objected to the accusation, to have the athletes by the treatments, in danger. “To me it was always important that the athletes no health adds more damage.” To said case in the indictment, according to which he had given to a mountain biker, a dangerous drug, he said, that he reported to the Austrian very well that he could have performed no Tests with the medium. The prosecution accuses Mark S. in this Episode of dangerous bodily injury.
The Munich state Prosecutor’s office accuses the 42-year-old physician almost 150 Offences. Mark S. admitted most of the acts, to resist language but also in a dozen of the listed cases.
