• 07/22/22 'Supermán' López was registered in Barajas

The former cyclist and former sports director

Vicente Belda Vicedo

, his son

Vicente Belda García

, a masseuse for the Astana team, and the Colombian cyclist

Miguel Ángel López

are some of those investigated in the plot dedicated to the distribution of prohibited drugs for the doping of athletes and

that has dismantled the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard

.

As sources close to the investigation have indicated to EFE, Belda and her son were related to the doctor and professor at the University of Extremadura (UNEX)

Marcos Maynar

, who was arrested last May for, among other alleged crimes, illegal drug trafficking and whom a judge released with charges after declaring in Court number 4 of Cáceres.

Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel "Supermán" López, Astana runner and also accused in the investigation directed by court number 4 of Cáceres,

has also been investigated in the operation, called

Ilex .

Maynar's assistant, a doctor in Exercise Physiology, was also arrested in the operation.

In total

there are eight people investigated in this plot

, whose members had specific missions, including obtaining chemical components that they later mixed to make prohibited drugs, including one used for doping, Menotropin.

The network used the facilities of the University of Extremadura to serve the clients that other members involved captured

.

According to the sources, it was allegedly

Maynar who prepared the athletes' training sessions, including a nutritional supplement with drugs and substances prohibited in sports

.

And to make the "cocktail" always took into account the customer's chances of victory in its competitions.

Vázquez Iglesias, also implicated

Another of those investigated, in this case in the Basque Country, is the exclist

Ángel Vázquez Iglesias

, who was sanctioned in 2007 for doping until 2010, but even so, he came to participate in some competitions before the term of his sanction ended. .

Apparently, Vázquez Iglesias recruited young people to send them as clients to Maynar, among them a minor federated in a provincial swimming federation.

The investigation remains open with the collaboration of security forces from other countries

to which shipments of these prohibited drugs have been made.

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