Paris (AFP) – A collaboration between the Serbian anti-doping agency and law enforcement operatives who seized 3,000 kilogrammes of performance-enhancing drugs and broke up an organised crime gang last year is “the future in the fight against doping”, WADA’s Director of Intelligence and Investigations Gunter Younger has told AFP.

The collaboration stemmed from a proposal from the World Anti-Doping Agency to the European Union in 2022 to assist with funding of a week-long workshop bringing together law enforcement officers from across Europe and anti-doping personnel from national agencies.

The Serbian gang — eight members were arrested — had brought in doping products with an estimated worth of three million euros ($3.1 million) from India, Serbia’s anti-doping agency said.

Although the raids were carried out by the police, they acted on intelligence gathered by the Serbian agency.

Similar operations have been carried out in Poland — which uncovered a laboratory capable of producing one million steroid pills a day — and in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Greece…

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