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Thursday, 24 November 2005 |
Lithuanian cyclist Raimondas Rumsas on dope charges
Lithuanian cyclist Raimondas Rumsas and his wife Edita appeared in
court on Thursday to answer doping charges. The 33-year-old, who
finished third in the 2002 Tour de France, is charged with importing
and possessing prohibited substances and his wife faces the same
charges plus another of supplying doping products.
On the last day of the 2002 Tour, she was arrested by French customs
after banned drugs were discovered in her car as she headed home to
Italy.
Edita Rumsas, 31, claimed the medicines were for her ill mother. She was was detained for 75 days but then released on bail.
She faces up to five years in prison and a fine if found guilty at Bonneville Criminal Court in France.
Raimondas Rumsas was also subsequently arrested on 29 June but released
on 8 July after an appeals court in Florence deemed it enough to keep
him under house arrest.
Raimondas Rumsas faces up to three years in prison and a fine if found guilty.
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