The head of RUSADA’s investigative department, Leonid Ivanov, told about the difficult aspects of his job, in particular the threats against him.
Have you ever been threatened?
“During your stay at RUSADA?” Everything happened, the threats too. But the closer we get to today, the less often.
– What did they threaten?
– Different. The surveillance car kind of followed me everywhere. Who, why, is unclear, but unpleasant. Perhaps, on the contrary, they guarded, it was in one of the regions.
Sometimes they try to hint at high relations, but in 99% of cases these are just words. And not so long ago, now it is already possible to say, we visited a bodybuilding competition and did not find mutual understanding with one of the organizers. Moreover, they did not find it to the point of causing a conflict.
– Who are we talking about?
– President of the Moscow Bodybuilding Federation Oleg Makshantsev. The man showed ignorance of the anti-doping code and took it all with hostility. Opposed to doping control.
“A bodybuilder, I suppose, is not soft in opposition.
– He behaved aggressively, called the police, who logically did not see the violations. More importantly, he did not allow us to perform any tests. He physically intervened, shouted, demanded to leave, consulted someone. They explained to him: everything is in the law. Private security escorted us anyway. OK, fixed, I also called the police. As a result, the person was disqualified for 12 years, the accreditation of the Moscow Federation was revoked.
Source : MatchTV
