VIENNA (AP) — Public prosecutors say a blood lab earned €300,000 ($411,000) up to 2006 by helping athletes to use blood doping.
The Humanplasma lab was charged with evading taxes but has meanwhile cleared debts, prosecution spokesman Gerhard Jarosch told the Austria Press Agency on Friday.
Humanplasma director Lothar Baumgartner said that hematologist Paul Hoecker of the Vienna University hospital used the lab until 2006 for taking blood from approximately 50 athletes, but that the eventual reinjection of the enriched blood took place elsewhere.
In March, prosecutors dropped charges after they found no evidence against two unnamed doctors who allegedly used the lab to systematically help athletes use doping products.
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