A medical technology company in Ljubljana was a contact point for Mark S., the Erfurt blood doping doctor in the 2010s. The ARD documentary “in the slipstream” shows: “Medico Tehna” is still open to dubious shops.
In the end everything went very quickly. Previously, the management of the Slovenian medical technology company Medico Tehna had requested some consideration time in the consultations about the supposed purchase of the “Multi Component Collection System”, after all one “A few problems“Had, said the company manager – with”Athletes“The device for “Illegal doping used“Had.
One is therefore “Rather hesitant” With a sale because such devices “actually intended for medical treatments” be. In the end, the Slovenes apparently threw all scruples overboard. The calling of the money-the machine that could be the heart of a blood doping ring in sports in theory, including accessories up to 50,000 euros-was obviously too strong.
Delivery “in two to three weeks”
The promise for sale and delivery of the device to the interested parties from Germany took place a few days later. The ARD doping editorial team was behind the supposed buyers who had introduced themselves as sports managers with contacts in the cycling scene. The journalists had clearly expressed the illegal purpose of the machine in the course of the consultations, which also took place at the company headquarters in Ljubljana.
No scruples: employees of the Slovenian medical technology company Medico Tehna.
And the last phone call in which the supposed business was completed only took a few minutes. The manager said shortly before the film was completed, the machine may already have “Deliver in two to three weeks”.
Even the renewed emphasis that the quick delivery due to the planned use of the machine is of great importance when it comes to upcoming sporting events was no longer important for the employee: “Okay, no problem, thank you!” Apparently it is easy to get medical equipment that can also be misused for illegal blood doping.
Tip “only if you are alone”
Medico Tehna had already come under pressure in the course of the “Operation Adlass” because it served as a contact point for Erfurt’s blood doping-dreary dreary. Among other things, the company was also mentioned in the chats between Mark S. and two accomplices, which the ARD doping editorial team had been played in the course of the research on the film “Im Wettage”.
Even tip payments in Ljubljana were conspiratorial. “Mark, do I have to pay tips at Medico Tehna? If so, how much?”wrote one of the accomplices to Mark S. The doctor replied that he should put the contact person down a hundred euros, “But really only if you are alone and nobody sees it”.
No reaction to request
In the course of the Aderlass processes, an employee of the company was convicted of aid: Gregor A. “Forbidden use of doping methods in sport” sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year and nine months. The current management of Medico Tehna left an inquiry from the ARD doping editorial team to the latest facts unanswered. It is unclear whether the company in Slovenia will face consequences.
The company headquarters of the medical technology company Medico Tehna in Ljubljana in Slovenia.