PESCARA. Of the six remaining defendants, compared to the original 18 investigated in the “Mr. Muscoli” conducted by the NAS carabinieri on a vast ring of doping substances, only three were sentenced yesterday with the abbreviated trial before the GUP Francesco Marinoand some after the reclassification of some crimes or the expulsion of others. Igor Gnagnarelli was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison; Marco Cascini at one year and 2 months; Federico De Lellis at one year and 4 months. Valerio Di Munno And Nicola Riccitelli they were instead acquitted “because the act attributed to them is not foreseen by law as a crime”, while Guglielmo De Nobile as “for the charge ascribed to him in the register he has already been tried for the same fact”.
This brings to a close an investigation which, when it exploded in 2019, created a small earthquake among the many gym goers who think of fortifying and increasing their muscles by using banned substances which are considered harmful to the body. The information provided by the NAS carabinieri was substantial, painting a truly disconcerting picture regarding the use of certain doping substances and in particular how those substances were “intercepted” (also and above all abroad) and then supplied to gym goers. through a real black market.
Di Munno, one of the acquitted defendants, during some phone calls intercepted by investigators, wanted to participate in a well-known television program and therefore needed to present himself as properly “trained”: «On May 19th», the Nas wrote to the prosecutor’s office, «the The suspect will participate in the final casting test for participation in “Temptation Island”. From the content of some conversations with a family member and with a girl it can be seen that the last step of the selections consists of a costume test. This means that her physical appearance will dominate her. Precisely by virtue of this circumstance it is legitimate to hypothesize that Di Munno will try again to find illicit substances with anabolic effects on the market, which he can take in view of the test on May 19th. And he will try to do it again since he was unable to take the substances seized on the evening of April 20th from Igor Gnagnarelli (the latter one of the three convicted, ed) which were unmistakably directed at him.” But that was not how the judge’s decision was seen. Various crimes were initially contested which ranged from forgery to receiving stolen goods and naturally to the use or administration of drugs or other substances in order to alter the competitive performance of athletes, this last crime was then classified differently for everyone and classified as a minor crime .
Also condemned was the activity of a dietician who supplied his clients with prohibited substances imported from abroad: in particular from Greece, Bulgaria, India, Moldova, Hong Kong and Spain. The judge granted the benefits of suspension of sentence and non-mention of the sentence to all three convicts.
