In a series of police operations in several locations in Norway, the police have in recent months arrested traffickers in what is referred to as Norway history’s most extensive sales network of doping to bodybuilding community.
The concerted efforts against the league, as the police have called “Operation Storm Fall,” has led to turnover in the network is almost paralyzed.
the production, sale, purchase, possession and use of doping substances is criminalized – and the police have put large resources in more police.
the network has spread to the country, where subcontractors resells doping they have ordered from the main men.
Customers across the country have been able to book doping preparations via two different websites.
From a local Upper Eiker Buskerud steroids and a variety of other dopants been packaged, labeled and distributed mainly via the mail.
– It is organized as an online store, where they have shelf items that are picked and sent to the recipient, said sheriff Stig Rønneberg Upper Eiker TV 2.
most of the recipients of the illegal preparations are bodybuilders with connections to a number of training centers.
several dozen people have been arrested in several police districts, including in Hordaland.
the network also has links to Rogland.
Gigant seizures in December
in December police beat to against some of the leaders in Upper Eiker.
there were designated as Norway’s largest drug seizures made.
the premises police found was brimming with both liquid doping injection and a variety of other products.
– the value of the goods in this seizure is about 29 million and is the largest made ever, says Rønneberg TV 2.
In addition to doping preparations were seized ULVO medicines viagra and antidepressants, used to treat side effects of including anabolic steroid (AAS).
– it was a wide range of preparations we found, says Rønneberg to TV2.
the items were marked with seemingly genuine labels, but the police have also seized large quantities stickers specially ordered from China.
according to police, the network now revealed the largest and most important network in Norway for the sale of doping.
main governors, five ethnic Norwegian men may have controlled as much as 80% of the Norwegian doping market recently.
the network has used encrypted email communication, and parts of the payment stream is carried out by means of the digital currency BitCoin.
User local distributors
the police with the investigation acquired what they consider customer lists detailing more dog buyers of doping.
A large number of these buyers have through online ordered and received doping for more than 150,000 crowns each.
– these individuals act as local sellers and distributors of illegal drugs for bodybuilders, explains Rønneberg.
Our customer lists police have accessed has in recent weeks been used to take users and buyers of dopants, both in Follo, Bergen and parts of Northern Norway.
police sitting, after the TV 2 knowledge, the emails that show exactly which dopants are ordered and who the recipients.
the league has probably reacted doping numerous tens of million before they were revealed.
the five main defendants had main warehouse sitting in different places and moved it periodically.
raids against gyms
21. April police beat in Follo, along with investigators from other districts to at a training center where six people acknowledged doping use.
Tuesday police beat to the fitness center in Dunstable, where a total of 11 people were charged with possession and use of doping.
Eight bodybuilders acknowledged onsite spending doping.
VIDEO : see report from the raid in Hokksund here.
Upon examination of some of the accused’s homes, it was found weapons and significant amounts of doping.
Warns buyers
Since police now sits hundreds of names of people who have booked doping from the network, warned there are now several campaigns.
– We want to send a signal that no one can feel safe . Our goal is to prevent especially young people from starting with doping, says Rønneberg, TV 2.
The way doping gang has operated on is so organized and the amounts in question so large that the leaders will probably be prosecuted under the so-called mafia section for organized crime.
– in the warehouse we found in December preparations sorted in picking shelves, where the goods were extracted, packaged and sent to the recipient, telling the sheriff.
– They appear very organized, he added.
TV 2 has a number of articles and reports in the last year described the widespread doping use that takes place in the Norwegian bodybuilding community.
According to figures from the police in Oslo, is a predominance of perpetrators of serious violence cases users of doping.
users of anabolic steroids is also represented in a wide variety of cases involving domestic violence, and in this story tells a young woman about violence nightmare she lived in when she was living with a bodybuilder who used anabolic steroids.
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