Informant of the World Anti-Doping Agency Grigory Rodchenkov announced in the international search, told RIA Novosti news agency the press secretary of the Moscow Basmanny Court Yunona Tsareva. She added that the court in absentia issued a warrant for the arrest of Rodchenkov, and now the investigation can make a request for his extradition. The former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory was charged under the article "Abuse of official powers". Rodchenkov became the initiator of an international scandal involving accusations of athletes from the Russian Federation in the systematic admission of doping.

The former head of the anti-doping laboratory said that at least 15 Russian athletes - winners of the Olympics in Sochi - were included in the "doping program" of Russia. Revelations Rodchenkov were published in the newspaper The New York Times in May 2016. WADA immediately after that conducted an investigation and recommended the IOC to remove the Russian Olympic team in full force from the Summer Games of 2016. in the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko many times denied what Rodchenkov said, emphasizing that there are no doping programs in Russia and have not been.