Organised crime and ElephantJuice in sport investigation part IV

[Ausguy]

Nup.

 

[Eion]

So in a criminal investigation into assault and affray, the cops can't compel Packer and Gyng to an interview. Wouldn't the poor old cops love the power of asada....

 

[Card Shark]

Maybe.....but they wouldn't like their speed of operation.

Something wrong with ASADA to take so long to achieve nothing.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Maybe.....but they wouldn't like their speed of operation.

Something wrong with ASADA to take so long to achieve nothing.

I believe the cops are about investigate the actions of a fella named Ned Kelly. Rumour has it that he might be a bit light fingered.

 

[Card Shark]

Cops save investigation time by shooting people - maybe ASADA should take up this option since "we will surprised how much they know" :roll:

 

[Matchball]

Anyone with half a brain will know that this whole farce was bought on by the Labor Party trying to keep the corruption out of the headlines.

Didn't work and the Asda thing has stalled.

 

[Ausguy]

It's amusing that even sharks haters are over it.

 

[Card Shark]

Anyone with half a brain will know that this whole farce was bought on by the Labor Party trying to keep the corruption out of the headlines.

Didn't work and the Asda thing has stalled.

Jason Clare still doing the rounds in opposition....no ramifications for him or his party over this.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-...late-to-appoint-new-anti-doping-chief/5440270

ASADA chief executive role to be filled after Aurora Andruska ends four years in top job
By Melissa Clarke

Posted May 09, 2014 07:20:57

The Federal Government has left it until the last minute to appoint a replacement to head Australia's anti-doping agency.

Sports Minister Peter Dutton will make an announcement today about a new chief executive for the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA).

The current chief executive, Aurora Andruska, officially finishes today, after being farewelled by colleagues at a lunch at ASADA's Canberra headquarters yesterday.

It was announced in February that she would not be seeking to extend her time in office after four years in the job.

The ABC understands that several candidates have been interviewed for the position in the past month.

It follows delays by Mr Dutton in appointing members to the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel (ADRVP), which assesses ASADA's evidence.

That led to ASADA's high-profile case against former Essendon Football Club sports scientist Stephen Dank being held up.

Some in the industry are concerned the Federal Government has plans for wider changes at ASADA.

The anti-doping agency has been criticised for the slow progress of its investigations into drug use in the AFL and NRL.

More than a year ago, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and ASADA announced an investigation had uncovered the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs, match-fixing and links to organised crime at the highest levels of professional sport.

It was dubbed "the blackest day in Australian sport" by former ASADA head Richard Ings.

But the anti-doping watchdog is yet to finalise its investigations, centred around the AFL and NRL clubs Essendon and Cronulla, with players and club officials still uncertain whether they will be pursued over the allegations.

In February, Mr Dutton appointed retired Federal Court judge Garry Downes to review ASADA's investigations, with the aim of concluding them.

 

[carcharias]

They should put Dank in charge .

He seems to be about the only one with any idea what is going on.

 

[betcats]

I don't have the words to express what a f**king joke that press conference has turned out to be.

 

[Diesel]

I hope those Labor crooks that thought up this idea to target sport to take the heat away from themselves are forced to explain and payback some of these costs associated to the tax payer. No wonder this country's finances are f**ked.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/new-asada-boss-appointed-20140509-zr7wl.html

New ASADA boss appointed

Date
May 9, 2014 - 3:28PM

Samantha Lane
Sports Writer

Ben McDevitt is the new boss of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, the former Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner appointed to take over the cases hanging over the country's most popular football codes, the AFL and NRL.

The announcement of Aurora Andruska's replacement was made at Parliament House on Friday afternoon by federal minister for health and sport, Peter Dutton, and came after a search of roughly two-months that is believed to have led recruiters to approach at least one candidate based abroad.

McDevitt was a member of the AFP for 22 years and has a criminal investigations background. He is a former commander of operations for ACT Policing, was general manager for AFP national operations and national manager counter terrorism. In 2003, he helped lead a police peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands and was later appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force.

A career public servant who was a Centrelink boss before joining ASADA, Andruska served almost four years in the CEO's job of the national anti-doping agency - one full term, plus an extension of 12 months - before her resignation was announced in March with the most high profile drugs cases in Australian sport history delicately poised.

Three months after the Australian Crime Commission tabled explosive findings from its probe into sport, drugs and corruption, in February 2013, Andruska's contract with government-funded ASADA was extended for a further year. She departs, however, with matters that have potentially profound ramifications for AFL and NRL footballers - and by extension their clubs and codes - unresolved.

When Andruska's resignation was announced, former World Anti-Doping Agency boss John Fahey told Fairfax Media she had been "gutsy" in the job and "stood up to some of the bully boys in the system" during the damaging events of the past year. Fahey would not say who he believed the "bully boys" were, but praised Andruska's integrity: "..her prime objective, her only objective, was to achieve clean sport," he said.

MORE TO COME

 

[El Diablo]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/23368021/mcdevitt-to-head-asada/

While new AFL chief executive Gill McLachlan said he expected decisions on show-cause letters to be handed down "in the back half of May", McDevitt foreshadowed a longer wait.

"My very initial briefings is that we are dealing with very complex matters," he said.

"This is about careers hanging in the balance ... I will bring a sense of urgency but I will not sacrifice certainty for speed."

Minister Dutton suggested he would continue to stay out of the issue, calling the announcement of the doping issues last March by former Justice Minister Jason Clare as "the darkest days of the Gillard Government period".

"Politics doesn't belong in sport," he said.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...e-his-nrl-career/story-fniabm4i-1226912328469

Stephen Dank says Yow Yeh should have been able to use peptides to continue his NRL career

Greg Stoltz
The Courier-Mail
May 10, 2014 12:00AM

CONTROVERSIAL sports scientist Stephen Dank says prematurely retired Broncos star Jharal Yow Yeh should have been able to use peptides to repair his shattered leg.

Dank is fighting more than 30 violations laid by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority over his supplements programs at clubs including AFL’s Gold Coast Suns and Essendon.

He has refused to co-operate with ASADA but was guest speaker at a sportsman’s lunch on the Gold Coast on Friday.

Dank said he did not advocate open slather drug use, but believed doping rules needed modernising to keep battle-worn players on the field and help Australian codes stave off competition from overseas.

He cited Yow Yeh, who retired at 24 in March after failing to recover from an horrific leg fracture he suffered in 2012, as a player who should have been able to access “other methods of treatment’’.

Dank said Yow Yeah had lost about $4 million in earnings, endured eight operations and was likely to suffer medical issues in the future.

“Somewhere along the line, he’ll ask the question ‘why wasn’t I allowed to do certain things to get back to a full earning capacity?’,” he told the Burleigh Bombers AFL club.

“I would like to think, sooner rather than later, that we have some very, very sensible debate on how we manage these athletes.’’

Dank said the AFL wanted to evolve the game but seemed to want sports science to return “to the colosseum days’’.

And he insisted “not one’’ banned drug was given to players when he was at Essendon.

 

[Perth Red]

What sort of club invites Dank to be guest speaker at a club function lol?

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

I'm not sure what's worse: Dank impugning Yow Yeh's integrity by suggesting he would even want to use peptides at all or the fact he was stupid enough to say it publicly while the ASADA drama is still ongoing.

 

[Canard]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...e-his-nrl-career/story-fniabm4i-1226912328469

Clearly starting to turn the discussion to "well drugs are Okay".

As Transperant as an LNP press release.

 

[BunniesMan]

I think you'll find the month of May will be a big one in this investigation.

I think we'll know exactly where each club and each player stands by the end of the month.

 

[thorson1987]

Looks like another quiet month on the ASADA front guys