New film about the Russian doping mafia: murder, deception, scam

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Russia continues to violate the anti-doping rules, despite the exclusion of Russian athletes from participating in international athletics competitions. This statement was made by the German TV channel ARD.

On Sunday evening, the channel aired the third film in the "Secret File: Doping" series, entitled "Russian Red Herring," which presents data indicating that Russia continues to violate anti-doping rules. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said it would investigate the channel's new allegations.

The heroes of the film ARD, in particular, were Acting General Director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Anna Antseliovich and coaches Vladimir Mokhnev and Yuri Gordeyev. German journalists say that according to the decision of the IAAF, Mokhnev should be suspended for life in sports, but instead continues to train Russian athletes, as evidenced by the video available to the journalist.

Gordeev, according to ARD, supplies athletes with illicit drugs.

The film's author, Hayo Zeppelt, also claims that the new head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), Anna Antseliovich, during her work at this organization for another position, negotiated with the athletes about the time they passed the doping samples, although this is prohibited.

Seppelt claims that he has an audio recording of Antseliovich’s conversation with one of the athletes. However, her voice is not heard in the film - the contents of the conversation are translated into German and voiced by local announcers.

Separately, the film mentions the death of the former executive director of RUSADA. Nikita Kamaeva. The author believes that his death could have been no coincidence, since shortly before his death he was going to pass on to the foreign media data on doping in Russian sports, which are of an exposing nature.

The reaction of the Ministry of Sports of Russia

The Ministry of Sports commented on the film about doping in Russian athletics. “The state cannot be held responsible for any specific subjective violations. And we are ready to support all reorganization activities (ARAF) together with WADA and IAAF in order to avoid any violations in the future,” she told the agency "R-Sport" Advisor to the Minister of Sports Natalia Zhelanova.

At the same time, the head of the ministry Vitaly Mutko said that his department is not responsible for all cases of doping with Russian athletes.

“For our part, we are doing everything possible, actively cooperating with the International Association of Athletics Federations and the World Anti-Doping Agency, and are ready to continue to do this in the future in order to build the most optimal system. But it is impossible to talk about the state’s responsibility in every private violation,” Mutko said.

As wrote earlier by ForumDaily, in November 2015 WADA published report, according to which the Russian Anti-Doping Center destroyed evidence of doping tests. In the future, the Russian Athletics Federation was removed from international competitions.

Home investigation put the film of the German documentary filmmaker Hayo Zeppelt. The film caused the effect of a bombshell: the creators of the film blamed leading Russian athletes for systematically using prohibited drugs.

The highlight of the film was two videotapes made using a mobile phone.

After which the independent commission of the World Doping Agency (WADA) recommended take away The All-Russian Athletics Federation of membership in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and prohibit Russian athletes from taking part in the 2016 Olympiad of the Year in Rio de Janeiro.

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