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‘FIFA should investigate Mutko’
- Updated: July 18, 2016
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called on FIFA to investigate Russia’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko over drug failures in football.
A bombshell report on “state-dictated” doping in Russia, who will host the 2018 World Cup, said the manipulation of tainted Russian samples was controlled by Mutko’s ministry.
The investigation by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren did not provide evidence of a detailed implication by Mutko in decisions to protect drug-cheat athletes.
However, it said Mutko, president of the Russian Football Federation, a member of FIFA’s executive and chief organiser of the 2018 World Cup, took the decision to hide the doping case of a foreign player in the Russian Football League.
McLaren quoted Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov as saying it was “inconceivable” that Mutko did not know about the whole doping system.
WADA called on FIFA to act on Mutko, a 57-year-old ally of president Vladimir Putin and sports minister since …
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