Against biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov, two-time Olympic champion, at the request of the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, an open investigation. According to Le Monde, despite the fact that questions to the Russian athlete arose even in 2010, but the International Biathlon Union, IBU, ignored them. On Tuesday, April 10, the Federal Criminal Police Directorate of Austria conducted a search at the headquarters of the IBU in Salzburg and in the house of the president of the organization Anders Besseberg. At the same time, WADA clarified that these activities are related to doping, and representatives of the Austrian police added that it was a question of investigating the corruption case amounting to 300 thousand. Euro.

Before the police began to search the offices of the IBU, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov said in an interview with Norwegian television that the Biathlon Union allegedly helped the Russian Anti-Doping Agency mask positive doping tests of Russians. According to the publication, WADA opened a case against Ustyugov on the basis of anomalous indicators of the biological passport of the Russian biathlonist. Evgeni Ustyugov has already completed his sports career, the Russian Biathlon Union said he did not receive any official notification of the opening of the case against the athlete, RIA Novosti reports..