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The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) will have access to the full documentation of the Mantova-based doping investigation after it was added as a civil party to the case at a t🌃echnical hearing on Wednesday. reports that the preliminary hearing will now be held on April 30.

The inquiry is centred on the activities of Marianꦦa Mantovana-based pharmacist Guido Nigr♑elli and his links to the Lampre team in 2008 and 2009.

In spite of an objection on technical grounds from lawyers representing the 31 individuals named in the M🦋antova report, the preliminary hearing judge accepted CONI’s request to be added to the proceedings.

Two years ago, CONI’s anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri summoned a number of individuals named in the investigation to Rome for questioning, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:including Alessandro Ballan, but no action was takeಌn pending the conclusion of legal proceedings.

Wednesday’s deve꧙lopment means that riders and managers implicated in the Mantova inquiry could now face sporting sanctions before the conclusion of the lengthy legal proceedings, which have already bee🎃n delayed on several occasions.

News of the investigation first appeared in the Italian media in April 2010, and on the eve of the 2011 Giro d’Italia Gazzetta dello Sport publishe𝓰d a transcript of a damning conversation between Nigrelli and former world champion Alessandro Ballan, dating from 2009.

The formal pre💧li🍎minary hearing for the case – in which the 31 people named in the report will learn whether or not they will face trial – has been postponed on several occasions, but has now been fixed for April 30.

At the preliminary hearing, reports, judge Gilberto Casari will also rule on whether phone taps gathered before the trial🐲 are admiꦑssible as evidence.

The 31 names listed in the 🎶Mantova report include past and present Lampre riders Alessandro Ballan, Damiano Cunego, Marco Bandiera, Mauro Da Dalto, Manuele Mori, Massimiliano Mori🦄, Marzio Bruseghin, Daniele Pietropolli, Simone Ponzi and Mauro Santambrogio.

Lampre manager Beppe Saronni, directeurs sportifs Fabrizio Bontempi and Maurizio Piovani, and former professio💦nal Mariano Piccoli were also named in Condo𝓀relli’s report, as well as Michael Rasmussen.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Lampre team said it was “confident that it can prove its non-involvement in the charges.”