The Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has filed the complaint that the Government imposed on the actions of the former director of the Spanish Commission for the Fight against Doping in Sports (CELAD) José Luis Terreros, according to sources familiar with the procedure. As this newspaper reported, it was the Government itself that reported Terreros to the State Attorney General’s Office for not processing the positive result of sprinter Patrick Chinedu, among other possible irregularities, such as the payment of anti-doping controls that were later not appropriate to sanction athletes. . Less than a year ago, that same Prosecutor’s Office considered that opening a file on doped athletes was “a legal imperative” regardless of whether all formal requirements were met. At that time he did it to save Terreros in another case, as he did in at least two other complaints.
Since at least 2018, Spain has had a problem with anti-doping controls. The royal decree that regulated them stipulated, somewhat confusingly, that there must be two control agents always present. But with the company that carried out the anti-doping controls, the German PWC, there was often only one agent. There are many sports events, many amateur, and going with two multiplied the costs. CELAD knew this and the positive results it found that had been carried out with a single agent followed different paths: some progressed, others remained in a drawer, other athletes resorted… Those who were buried never came to light, protected by the law of data protection.
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