Nationwide performance-enhancing drug ring busted
Three people, including pharmacist, face charges
15 March, 12:33
(ANSA) - Rome, March 15 - Nationwide probes into
performance-enhancing drugs in gyms, sporting supplies stores
and non-professional cycling circuits in Italy led to charges
for three people on Friday for alleged illegal steroid use and
distribution.Investigators from the Marche city of Ancona who lead the probes said that steroid-based pharmaceuticals including nandrolone, growth hormones, boldenone and testosterone were being ordered by Internet mostly from Greece, Ukraine and Moldova and sold to gym goers and amateur athletes.
Vials and tablets worth 11,500 euros were confiscated and a pharmacist is among those being probed, investigators said.
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