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In a statement on Wednesday Afternoon, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) have announced they will investigate reports that Stephen Dank allegedly admitted to a journalist of smuggling CJC-1295 to Gold Coast Suns player Nathan Bock.
Dank allegedly admitted administering to Bock exactly what he has been found guilty for by the AFL Tribunal. He is currently in the process of appealing that verdict.
“ASADA notes [Dank] is currently appealing the AFL Tribunal’s finding that he attempted to traffic CJC-1295 to the Gold Coast Suns”
It is not the first time Dank has admitted administering an illegal peptide to players to a journalist, which he has done before, only to retract the statement the very next day, saying he got the names of drugs mixed up.
He admitted to a Fairfax journalist that was injecting the Essendon players with Thymosin Beta 4. When questioned he hesitated before saying “Well, that must have just only come in this year and I will get someone to speak to ASADA about that. That’s just mind-blowing.”
The next day, he informed Fairfax journalists that Thymomodulin was in fact what was being injected, which wasn’t on the banned list.
Dank was one of the key figures in the drug saga that rolled on at AFL club the Essendon Bombers, and NRL club the Cronulla Sharks during their 2013-14 seasons. It saw 34 Essendon players banned by the AFL this year, and the Cronulla Sharks players serving shortened suspensions for accepting guilt in the issue.
ASADA’s statement also mentioned that Dank has consistently refused to cooperate or talk with ASADA over the past three years with his former involvements in the aforementioned scandals.
After those scandals, Dank was banned for life by the AFL.
ASADA will consider the information, but needs reliable evidence and testimony in order to bring cases forward, and have also contacted the journalist in question who made the claims.
Read the full statement
ASADA statement: will asssess new info over Stephen Dank's claims he supplied Nathan Bock with banned peptide. #AFL pic.twitter.com/55pU7xmtmX
— ABC Grandstand (@abcgrandstand) April 13, 2016
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