Asia Pharma / British Dragon resellers caught faking stock delivery picture.

You may have seen versions of the pic posted above on a number of AP / BD controlled websites showing what is claimed to be a new 2012 delivery of stock from BD / AP. It's being used to convince their customers that BD / AP hasn't been busted and that ordering from them is still safe.

Sadly the guys responsible for it were not tech savvy enough to realise that the jpeg image they had used still contained a full set of exif data from the Canon camera they had taken it with. The photo was actually taken in early October 2011 two months prior to the owner's bust in Austria. I somehow doubt they will be smart enough to quit while they are ahead.

Feds ran steroid sting sites SportsDrugs.net and NotGrowingOldEasy.com to build case against Google.

WEARING leg irons and guarded by federal agents, David Whitaker posed as an agent for online drug dealers in dozens of recorded phone calls and email exchanges with Google sales executives, spending $200,000 in government money for ads selling narcotics, steroids and other controlled substances.

Over four months in 2009, Mr. Whitaker, a federal prisoner and convicted con artist, was the lead actor in a government sting targeting Google Inc. that yielded one of the largest business forfeitures in US history.

"There was a part of me that felt bad," Mr. Whitaker wrote in his account of the undercover operation viewed by The Wall Street Journal. "I had grown to like these people." But, he said, "I took ease in knowing they knew it was wrong."

The government built its criminal case against Google using money, aliases and fake companies - tactics often used against drug cartels and other crime syndicates, according to interviews and court documents. Google agreed to pay a $US 500 million forfeiture last summer in a settlement to avoid prosecution for aiding illegal online pharmaceutical sales.
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Google acknowledged in the settlement that it had improperly and knowingly assisted online pharmacy advertisers allegedly based in Canada to run advertisements for illicit pharmacy sales targeting U.S. customers.

"We banned the advertising of prescription drugs in the US by Canadian pharmacies some time ago," the company said in its sole comment on the matter.

"However, it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place."

The half-billion dollar forfeiture, although historically large, was small change for Google, which holds $US 45 billion in cash. But the company's acceptance of responsibility opened the door to potential liability for taking ads from other people involved in unlawful acts online, such as distributing pirate movies or perpetrating online fraud.

Google has long argued it wasn't responsible for the actions of its more than one million advertisers. But the forfeiture paid by Google represented not just the money it made from the ads, but also the revenue collected by illegal pharmacies through Google-related sales.

In an important shift, the settlement "signals that, where evidence can be developed that a search engine knowingly and actively assisted advertisers to promote improper conduct, the search engine can be held accountable as an accomplice," according to Peter Neronha, the lead prosecutor.

Unknown is whether the company will toss aside advertisers as a result. "If Google were to adopt a much more restrictive definition of problematic advertisements, everyone would immediately notice a drop in their revenue," said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University.

The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.

Mr Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr Neronha, the US attorney for Rhode Island who led the multi-agency federal task force that conducted the sting.

"We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on," he said in an interview after the August settlement.

Mr Neronha declined to detail the evidence, which was presented in secret to a federal grand jury. Other people familiar with the case said internal emails showed Sheryl Sandberg, a former top Google executive who left in 2008 for Facebook Inc, had raised concerns about the ads.

Prosecutors could have used that evidence to argue Google deliberately turned a blind eye to lawbreaking to protect a profit stream estimated by the government in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ms. Sandberg declined to comment through a spokesman. Mr. Page also declined to comment.

"We ban not just ads but also advertisers who abuse our platform, and we work closely with law enforcement and other government authorities to take action against bad actors," said Kent Walker, Google's general counsel.

Mr Whitaker's story, told here for the first time, presents a different picture. Shuffling into federal court in handcuffs and beige overalls last month, the 37-year-old prisoner looked like he could pass for an employee of a Silicon Valley start-up.

'It was very obvious to Google that my website was not a licensed pharmacy,' said David Whitaker, the prisoner who acted in the sting.

The Tennessee native suffers from bipolar disorder, according to court submissions by his lawyers, and has a history of manic spending and fraud sprees. When he was 16-years-old, Mr. Whitaker took his mother's credit card, rented a private jet and flew his girlfriend for a shopping spree in Knoxville, the documents said.

Mr Whitaker's path to undercover operative began in 2005, when he took millions of dollars in orders for Apple iPods and other electronics at below market prices and skipped town without filling the orders, according to his account and court documents. He hopscotched around the US in a private jet, evading arrest and protected by a private security detail. He briefly rented a Miami mansion for $200,000 a month.

He fled to Mexico in 2006 and started an Internet pharmacy, selling steroids and human growth hormone to US consumers through Google ads, he said. The two substances sold in the US by prescription only are sought by body builders to add muscle and by older consumers seeking to slow the signs of aging; they aren't approved in the US for such uses. Google's policy prohibited advertising their sale online.

"It was very obvious to Google that my website was not a licensed pharmacy," Mr. Whitaker wrote to the Journal. "Understanding this, Google provided me with a very generous credit line and allowed me to set my target advertising directly to American consumers."

Mr Whitaker was arrested in Mexico in March 2008 for entering that country illegally and returned to the US to face charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and commercial bribery in the iPod case. Mr. Whitaker told US authorities about the alleged role Google played in helping his Mexico-based pharmacy.

Federal prosecutors, seeking to test the allegation, set up a task force in early 2009 with Mr. Whitaker's help. On weekdays, he was escorted from the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to a former school department building in North Providence, R.I. There, under the watch of federal agents, he set a snare for Google.

Posing as the fictitious Jason Corriente, an agent for advertisers with lots of money to spend, Mr Whitaker bypassed Google's automated advertising system to reach flesh-and-blood ad executives. Federal agents created www.SportsDrugs.net, designed to look "as if a Mexican drug lord had built a website to sell HGH and steroids," Mr. Whitaker said in his account of the sting.

Google first rejected it, along with an anti-aging website called www.NotGrowingOldEasy.com. But the company's ad executives worked with Mr. Whitaker to find a way around Google rules, according to prosecutors and Mr. Whitaker's account.

The undercover team removed a link to buy the drugs directly - instead requiring customers to submit an online request form and Google approved it.

"The site generated a flood of email traffic from customers wanting to buy HGH and steroids," Mr. Whitaker said.

To pay Google's fees for the growing online traffic, undercover agents made payments every two or three days with a government-backed credit card.

Federal agents grew more brazen. They created a site selling weight-loss medications without a prescription, according to Mr. Whitaker and people familiar with the matter. They also added another site selling the abortion pill RU-486, which in the US can only be taken in a doctor's office.

Google's ad team in Mexico approved the site, so US consumers searching for "RU 486" would see an ad for the site. Google ad executives allowed the agents to add the phrase "no prescription needed."

Days later, federal agents added links to buy the drugs directly. Such sales broke US laws prohibiting the sale of drugs from outside the country and without a prescription. "There were photos of the drugs, descriptions, labels that clearly printed out that we were shipping without a prescription and it was from Mexico," Mr Whitaker said.

By the end of the operation in mid-2009, agents were buying Google ads for sites purportedly selling such prescription-only narcotics as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Agents also got Google's sales office in China to approve a site selling Prozac and Valium to U.S. customers without a prescription.

"Google's employees were instrumental in bypassing policy regarding pharmacy verification," Mr Whitaker told the Journal. "The websites were blatantly illegal."

At the agents' direction, Mr Whitaker said he signaled his illegal intent to Google ad executives, including Google's top manager in Mexico. As a tape recorder ran, he walked Google executives through the illegal parts of the websites. He said he told ad executives that US Customs had seized shipments, for example, and that one client wanted to be "the biggest steroid dealer in the United States."

Agents at first ignored the flood of orders. But as the ersatz sites morphed into full-fledged Internet pharmacies, they worried that clients, some sick, would be expecting medication.

So customers were told they had to become members by filling out an online form and to receive a "membership kit." The kits never arrived, but it stopped users from placing orders, Mr Whitaker said.

In the summer of 2009, US agents visited Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to tell corporate executives about the evidence they had collected. Prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas and eventually collected four million pages of internal emails and documents, as well as witness testimony.

The federal task force, which also included the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigation, was preparing criminal charges against the company and its executives for aiding and abetting criminal activity online, prosecutors said.

Google hired attorney Jamie Gorelick, the former deputy US Attorney General under President Bill Clinton. Two years later, the company reached a settlement with the government, a decision that stopped the likely introduction of emails to top Google executives had the case gone to trial.

"Suffice to say this was not two or three rogue employees at the customer service level doing this on their own," said Mr Neronha, the U.S. attorney. "This was corporate decision to engage in this conduct."

Six private shareholder lawsuits have so far been filed against Google's executives and board members, alleging they damaged the company by not taking earlier action against the illegal pharmacy ads.

Google has other potential legal exposure. Record companies and movie studios say Google willfully profits from illegal Internet piracy - an issue raised last week, when Congress dropped antipiracy legislation after opposition from Internet companies, including Google.

A 2011 study commissioned by NBC Universal estimated that nearly a quarter of all Internet traffic relates to pirated movies, TV shows and games. "There's big business in being agnostic about what sites you place your ads on," said Jay Roth, national executive director of Directors Guild of America, which backed antipiracy legislation.

Online scams pose another potential legal threat. Searches relating to mortgage refinancing have been among the most popular on Google, Eric Schmidt said in 2009 when he was chief executive. An investigation by Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group, found that a large number of companies selling "mortgage modification" on Google bore the hallmarks of fraud.

The special inspector general's office for the Troubled Asset Relief Program in November said it had shut down 85 alleged online loan modification schemes that defrauded homeowners through Google ads.

"Google has a natural long-term financial incentive to make sure that the advertisements we serve are trustworthy so that users continue to use our services, and we aren't afraid to take aggressive action to achieve that goal," the company said.

To end the sting, federal agents killed off Mr Whitaker's fictional character. They sent the Google employees a final email, allegedly from Jason Corriente's brother, saying the online entrepreneur died in a car crash.

Mr Whitaker, who pleaded guilty and faced a maximum 65-year prison term, was sentenced in December to six years, following what federal prosecutors called "rather extraordinary" cooperation. He is due for release in two years.

Researchers: West Germany tolerated doping.

Two groups of researchers claim that the West German government accepted doping as a necessary evil for the country's athletes to achieve Olympic success in the 1970s and 1980s.

The research was done at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Muenster, in North Rhine-Westphalia state.

"Doping was not done by the state itself, but we found out that people from the Ministry of the Interior, (where) the interior minister is also the sport minister, were guests at important sessions where decisions on the use of anabolic steroids were made," Humboldt University Professor Giselher Spitzer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

"So, of course they weren't idiots. They were specialized people from the ministry. We think there was knowledge on the side of the state."

In East Germany, doping was systematic under the communist government. But the studies say that while West Germany did not force its athletes to take drugs, the state was not oblivious to the benefits of enhancing sporting performance through science.

The state-controlled and financed Federal Institute of Sport Science was founded in 1970 and conducted extensive research, starting with anabolic steroids before focusing on testosterone when anabolic steroids were banned in the '80s.

"You see the intent to apply steroids, testosterone and so on," Spitzer said. "The real intention, if you look into the files and speak with the witnesses, the real intention is to use the steroids in sports."

The same doctors involved in the research were able to take that knowledge when issuing advice or treating their athletes.

"That's why we call it systemic doping," Spitzer said. "There's a systemic connection between research and forbidden substances and in using them for athletes.

"If you ask the witnesses of this time, for example Professor (Wildor) Hollmann of the German Sport University and others, they all say, 'Yes, we knew the political system stood behind us.' So that's their view."

The studies found that federal money was provided for sports medical research to give German athletes help in competing on equal ground internationally, including at the Olympics.

"'Internationally' at this time meant doping," Spitzer said.

However, Spitzer said it was important to note that "at no time was every athlete doped" in West Germany - in contrast to East Germany.

In weightlifting or the throwing disciplines, the extent of doping may have been 90 percent of athletes at the highest level, but "we found there was a hidden struggle within the national teams, since the 50s, of dopers against the non-dopers," Spitzer said.

Now, after three years of research, the historians' 500-page report is being subjected to German privacy law to see what names can be left in and which must be taken out before the findings are presented.

"We do historical work to see if there was doping and how much, how it was working and how we can avoid it in future," Spitzer said. "If sport loses the confidence of spectators, of the fans, then sport is no longer interesting."

News article on Singapore's steroid scene.

They have fanciful names like dianabol, stanozolol and deca durabolin.

But these substances can be harmful for those taking them without a doctor's prescription, in a vain attempt to improve their bodies.

While stories of free drug use circulate in pro-athlete circles, casual gym rats here are taking to the 'roids too, thanks - or no thanks - to unscrupulous trainers and dealers who sell these substances on the black market.

The New Paper on Sunday (TNPS) has found that it is not difficult obtaining them.

All it takes is the persona of a potential client who wants the drugs to bulk up or slim down faster.

A personal trainer offered, over the phone, to sell us the goods.

He quoted a price of $70 for 100 tablets of clenbuterol - a substance that claims to help burn body fat quickly.

He then assured the reporter that he has a constant supply of the stimulant and was eager to meet up to close the deal.

TNPS also managed to contact a dealer, an executive in a engineering company, who sells these substances to people in his gym-going circle to make a quick profit.

In a Facebook conversation, however, the 30-year-old self-confessed gym rat stressed that he sells them only to people he knows.

But it did not take much to persuade him into peddling some to an undercover reporter, pretending to be keen on bulking up.

The rendezvous took place in a park in the eastern part of Singapore, where the man sold the reporter 100 pale yellow anabol tablets for $70.

A vial of a substance known as stanozolol, which can be injected, also changed hands for $120.

The tiny vial, containing 20ml of fluid, comes in a box. On it, a warning read: "For animal treatment only."

TNPS understands that anabolic steroids here are often brought in by people who get them from Thailand, where they are available off the shelves.

The reporter was told that stanozololis "a very effective steroid" and that it "can really enhance your performance in the gym".

Research shows that stanazolol is an anabolic steroid which helps promote muscle growth.

It cannot be bought without a prescription here.

Sports medicine physician Dr Chiam Tut Fu, from SportsMed Central at Novena Medical Centre, warns categorically against people using the drugs meant for animals.

He says the misuse of anabolic steroids can lead to complications such as liver problems, an increase in incidence of heart disease and higher blood cholesterol levels.

And if users decide to inject themselves with the steroids, the part injected can be at risk of infection.

Anabolic steroids have their proper medical uses.

For instance, it can help patients, who have lost substantial mass after surgery or who have muscular degenerative diseases such as HIV or muscular dystrophy, regain much-needed muscle tissues.

Anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs are substances regulated under the Poisons Act in Singapore, says the Health Sciences Authority (HSA).

HSA adds that these substances can be legally supplied only on a doctor's prescription or under the supervision of a pharmacist as they are potent substances and may cause adverse effects.

"Anyone found guilty of an offence under the Poisons Act is liable on conviction of a fine of up to $10,000 and or imprisonment for a term of up to two years," it warns.

Steroid use is spreading to even recreational gym-goers, who are turning to these drugs as a shortcut to achieving their "fitness" goals.

A 31-year-old personal trainer, who wants to be known only as Judy, says: "It is very common nowadays. In the past, only bodybuilders took them. Today, there are more young people taking them.

"Whenever I am in the gym, I often get people approaching me to ask if I sell such substances.

"I don't sell them, but as long as someone is willing to pay, it is not too difficult to find someone who does.

"Some personal trainers make up to 100 per cent profit from selling these substances. Stanazolol can sell up to $300 for a bottle."

A fitness manager in a local gym, Ms Celest Tan, 35, admits to using clenbuterol a few years ago.

"I took it out of curiosity. I wanted to lose weight too. So I bought 100 tablets of clenbuterol in a pack," she reveals.

Ms Tan weighed 66kg and wanted to lose 10kg.

Once she attained her ideal weight of 56kg, she stopped taking it.

"I worked out very vigorously every day and I didn't feel tired at all," she says.

But she adds that taking the substance gave her adverse side effects.

"My heartbeat was very fast and my hands were trembling. I also suffered from insomnia.

"I know the adverse effects in taking them. Some are irreversible. So I stopped."

Tulsa pill mill steroid doc gets probation.

A Nebraska doctor was sentenced Wednesday in Tulsa to probation in connection with a cross-country steroids conspiracy.

Dr. Raymond Heller of Omaha will spend the first eight months of his five-year probation under house arrest and will be expected to perform 100 hours of community service, U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan ruled. She said Heller would face as much as 10 years in prison if his probation is revoked.

Heller also will be partially responsible for a $685,741 judgment along with Edward Franklin Ward, 52, of Harvest, Ala. The penalty represents the proceeds the court found that were generated by the conspiracy.

Heller, 50, pleaded guilty in June, admitting that from Oct. 1, 2008, until April 8, 2010, he participated in a plot to dispense androgenic anabolic steroids outside the usual course of professional medical practice.

He said in plea documents that he signed prescriptions forwarded to him by Ward, primarily for testosterone, to clients of Ward's "anti-aging" business without having conducted any physical examinations or even having any direct contact with the clients.

He said in his plea agreement that he was paid $50 for each prescription he signed.

Ward pleaded guilty June 10 to a conspiracy charge and is scheduled to be sentenced April 10.

Both men were charged in March by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tulsa.

The conspiracy reportedly involved the distribution of more than 40,000 doses to dozens of customers across the country, including in Oklahoma, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel-lyn McCormick.

McCormick said the steroids were distributed to people in various professions and mostly came from a pharmacy in Florida.

Heller's attorney, Keith Ward, who is not related to Edward Ward, stated in his sentencing memorandum that Heller's intention was to make "anti-aging drugs available to persons whose medical profiles were indicative of a hormone deficiency."

Eagan mentioned Heller's otherwise law-abiding life among the reasons for sentencing him to probation instead of prison.

Heller told the court he is not practicing medicine and said he will soon have a hearing before a Nebraska review board that will decide whether to revoke his license.

Axis Labs gets small fine for selling steroids as supplements.

( Personally I think selling steroid laced supplements to young men is far worse than the activities of real steroid dealers )

Axis Labs, LLC, a company based in Centennial, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve one year probation and pay $107,000 to the U.S. Asset Forfeiture Fund as well as pay a fine of $50,000 in connection with the illegal distribution of product containing synthetic anabolic steroids.

On September 7, 2011 Axis Labs was charged by Information with mail fraud. On October 13, 2011 the company pled guilty to mail fraud. They were sentenced yesterday, January 18, 2012.

According to court documents, Axis Labs was involved in the illegal distribution of a product called “Monster Caps” which contained synthetic anabolic steroids, United States Attorney John Walsh and FDA Office of Criminal Investigations Special Agent in Charge Patrick Holland announced.

Axis Labs engaged in the business of manufacturing, labeling, shipping and selling certain food products. The business was active in and responsible for the distribution and marketing of a product called “Monster Caps.” The intended use of the product was to enable weight loss and the production of muscle mass. The product falsely purported pursuant to its label to be a “dietary supplement” and therefore could be distributed and dispensed without prior approval from the FDA and without a prescription from a duly authorized physician.

“Monster Caps” contained anabolic steroids, or similar synthetic compounds. Because Axis Labs intended these products to affect the structure and function of the human body, they were actually drugs regulated by law. Moreover, they were also new drugs and lacked the approved New Drug Application as required by law.

Between June 2008 and May 2009, Axis Labs sold “Monster Caps” on the internet, to customers throughout the United States without the required FDA approval for a new drug and without requiring a prescription. The company distributed the product by delivering it, or causing it to be delivered to customers via the United States Mail, or UPS.

“Consumers need to have confidence that products claiming to be ‘dietary supplements’ are not, in fact, unapproved new drugs,” said Patrick J. Holland, Special Agent in Charge of the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations. “We will aggressively investigate those who place profits over public health by marketing purported dietary supplements that contain drug substances such as synthetic anabolic steroids.”

This case was investigated by Food and Drug Administration – Office of Criminal Investigations.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jaime Pena and Tonya Andrews.

British steroid source gets 14 months for his third offence.

A former Aylesbury shopkeeper has been jailed for 14 months for selling illicit drugs and steroids under the counter.

Ricky Thomas, 25, who ran Health Zone in the Cloisters, supplied customers with a wide variety of drugs commonly abused by bodybuilders, including viagra, testosterone, Diazepam and breast-reduction drugs.

Police raided Thomas’s store on February 1 last year, where they discovered large quantities of drugs in cardboard boxes and vast amounts of cash.

The court heard how bodybuilder Thomas had been prosecuted twice before for similar offences, but had never received a custodial sentence.

Defending, David Jones said that despite finding himself in court once more, Thomas had attempted to keep himself out of trouble through setting up his health shop in the Cloisters.

“He was in an honest profession in Friars Square,” he said.

“But a lot of the work was surrounding bodybuilding, and he felt he needed to keep his customers happy by selling under the counter materials.

“His customers were body builders, so they knew what they were doing. He is only 25, and he is a young man with promise.” Thomas admitted to possession of Class C drugs, between November 2010 and February 2011, with intent to supply and possession of medical products knowing them to be marketed without authorisation.

He also pleaded guilty to one count of possession of medical products with intent to supply.

Thomas also admitted to two additional drug-related offences, which he asked to be taken into account.

Sentencing Thomas, Judge Lord Parmoor, who had also previously sentenced him for a previous offence, told the bodybuilder a custodial sentence was his only option.

“The fact is that you were convicted of similar offences in 2009, and you were given a community order, but then went back to committing these offences in February.

“This is the third time you have committed the same type of offences, despite being prosecuted each time – and these offences are serious and could have led to people suffering.

“The point of the law is to protect people from themselves.

“It has to be a custodial sentence.”

Thomas sold a variety of drugs from his store, ranging from male hormone testosterone, to viagra (believed to enrich muscles), Class C drug Diazepam, to breast-reducing drug Letrozole and acne treatment Isotretinoin (to combat undesired physical effects of steroids).

Manager of Friars Sqaure Andy Margieson said that while he was not in his current role when the offences were carried out, he is glad that justice has been served.

“It’s a relief that the offender has been dealt with and I am very pleased that the police were so efficient in finding out what was going on,” he said.

“I’m glad that Friars Square has been able to distance itself from all of this, and that this criminal activity has been taken out of the town centre.”

Advanced Muscle Science fined just $125000 for selling steroid laced supplements via Bodybuilding.com

A U.S. district judge fined two Western companies thousands of dollars Tuesday for distributing steroids disguised as dietary supplements to a Meridian-area retail company.

Representatives for the companies DCD, LLC, also known as Advanced Muscle Science, and R & D Holdings pleaded guilty to charges last fall of introduction and delivery into interstate commerce drugs that were misbranded with the intent to defraud.

Prosecutors say both companies were charged in Idaho because they distributed their products to an unnamed large Internet-based retailer headquartered in Meridian, that also has warehouses in Boise.

The companies were charged in Idaho because they distributed the steroids to the Meridian-area retailer, who had the ability to sell them to the rest of the United States.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill fined DCD, LLC $125,000 and R & D Holdings $21,000 — which is close to the gross revenue the companies generated from selling the fake supplements to the Meridian company and retailers in other states, according to U.S. Department of Justice reports.

Winmill also placed DCD, LLC on probation and is requiring that company to implement a testing protocol for its products to ensure future products sold as dietary supplements do not contain steroids for five years.

Prosecutors say R & D Holdings no longer manufactures supplements and is banned from doing so for the next two years as part of their probation.

DCD, LLC is a Nevada-based corporation with offices in California and Michigan. R & D Holdings was located in southern California, according to court records

Court documents do not identify the Meridian-based company.

In 2009, Meridian-based online dietary supplement retailer Bodybuilding.com agreed with the Food and Drug Administration to recall 65 products after an investigation revealed the products, including those distributed by DCD and R & D Holdings, contained or may have contained steroids.

Hungarian press reports on the new BD bust translated.

( they claim Police are still trying to find the location of his secret Asian laboratory, US DEA calls him the "king of steroids" )

Slovenian 'doping couple' Michael and Alenka Karner, who in custody awaiting extradition to the United States, part of its € 38 million, acquired illegally trade anabolic steroids over the Internet, has also invested in real estate projects in Croatia. Over Romarius company, registered in Barban, they built a ten million villa in Lovranu and tportal learned that in this famous seaside resort and bought three more attractive total land area of ​​about 5000 square meters.

In a large international operation late last year arrested a Slovenian couple Karner . Purchasing a large quantity of steroids and following the money trail, the U.S. DEA agents revealed the 'king of steroids' Michael Karner and his wife Alenka and handcuffed put them a few days before New Year's Austrian police, in their five million-euro villa in Bad Kleinkirchheim. 'Dopiniški pair' is now in custody in Klagenfurt is awaiting extradition to the U.S., where they face 40 years in prison. After their arrest followed a suicide Danila O'Boyle , the former chief editor of Delo, who was the niece Alenko Karner and her husband allegedly had business ties with the housing project 'urban oasis' in the Ljubljana district Vic. Millions of acquired assets for sale doping couple Karner 'washed', namely, investing in real estate projects in Slovenia and Croatia.

Austrian police are now investigating their business network branching from Macedonia to Thailand, but for now we do not know whether in this thriller, which touches on the Asian secret laboratory for the production of steroids and mysterious lawyers Gerold Hoop known from Hypo affair, the subject of interest and investment 'doping Couple 'in Istria.

In Croatia, the Karner invested through real estate agencies Romarius from Barban, whose directors are Michael Karner and his father Avguštin, while enrolled as a founder of the offshore company in Panama North Group Holding Corp.. Romariusa most important investment was the purchase of old properties in a desirable part of Lovran, a town that adjoins the Opatija. Property were demolished and the site built a luxurious villa. Other plans over Romariusa have not yet realized: the company operates at a loss for years, and the only value that we find in the balance sheet for 2010. The villa itself - 13.5 million was recorded as 'current assets relating to the construction site Lovran'.

Although some Councillors and the 2009th Local authorities warned that the company Romarius built without required permits, extending the retaining wall and access road past the allowable, and even that brazenly enters into possession of a neighbor, the construction was only briefly interrupted. The municipal authority after a few weeks ago found a common language with Karner and let them continue the construction of huge buildings, surrounded by high walls, but the villa, even today there is no 'pure' papers: from the land book is evident that the nadograđivali without the necessary permits. Indeed, the photographs show that the Karner harbored a passion for girls 'on steroids'. Just as it is Austrian, in which they were arrested, and the kitschy Lovranska exudes luxury. Swimming pool surrounded by teak, gym, garage and, as a climax, a sensational view. And to accomplish it, in front of the house, in the first floor level, our vast plateau, in which like many newly rich, centuries-old olive tree transplanted. The view from the plateau is indeed great, but because all the neighbors have to stare at the huge supporting concrete structure resembling a pyramid.

Hall which had warned the construction irregularities do not want to talk to reporters, but the neighbors have managed to find out that Michael and Alenka Karner enjoyed the luxury car brand Porsche, and we found that the above villa, also Lovranu, bought three more total land area of about 5000 square meters, whose total value is estimated at around 500,000 euros.

With Romarius, family Karner at the same address in Barban had a company Karner Ltd, which in 2001. founded by Michael the mother of Cyril and which for years operated at a loss. In 2010 he suddenly made a profit of 300,000 kuna, and although he soon thereafter liquidated its still active web site reveals an unusually narrow specialty: selling iron and ironing board. How to write the media, Cyril Karner is the owner of the villas in Slovene Rožnoj valley which was purchased by the aforementioned Slovenian journalist Danilo sink. The latter has denied any business relationship with Karner, but the media have discovered that Michael was arrested on the eve transferred ownership of its most valuable real estate projects, future settlement 'urban oasis' in Ljubljana, the gully son Uros. Many in that fact requires a trigger for suicide Danilo sink. The drama of the act suggests that we are still far from clarifying the operation of all Slavic kings doping.

More on the new British Dragon / Asia Pharma bust.

Slovene Michael and Alenka Karner, who are suspected of illegal online sales of doping preparations should be made ​​part of the earnings of millions in real estate projects in Istria, the Croatian news reports today tportal.hr web portal. It is a villa and three more in total land size of five thousand square meters in Lovran.

Launder money in Croatia

Croatian web portal emphasizes that it is not known whether the investment regimes in Croatia Karner part of an international investigation of crime online sales doping preparations, which had been committed in different parts of the world, but not in Slovenia. Home while adding that the couple "launder money" by investing in real estate in Slovenia and Croatia.

"In Croatia, the family Karner made ​​through real estate agencies in Barbana Romarius (a place in Istria in Pula), whose director was Michael Karner and his father, Augustine, while registered as a founder of the offshore company in Panama, North Group Holding Corp.," report to the Croatian portal.

The portal also notes that the most important investment was the purchase of the old estates Romariusa in the elite part of Lovran in Opatija. The old property was demolished and on it built a luxury villa.

Also participated mom?

Tportal He highlighted that for many years Romarius making a loss, the only value it has is mentioned villa worth HRK 13.5 million (1.8 million). In the construction of villas reporting portal did not have all relevant licenses, but "found a common language" with the municipal authorities in Opatija.

»Photos buildings show that the couple nurtured a passion for Karner Farm 'on steroids'. Like their villa in Austria, where they were arrested, including one in Lovran kitsch reminiscent of a luxury, "estimates tportal.

Spouses should also be purchased in Lovran three land, worth about half a million. Family Karner at the subsidiary had Romarius at the same address in Barban also registered company Karner, to the, which was founded in 2001 by Cyril Michael's mother.

Details are unclear

Tportal.hr also mentions a family business links between Karner and the late journalist and entrepreneur Danilo Slivnikom who committed suicide. "Drama of this action suggests that we are still far from disclosing all doping operations Slovenian kings," states the Croatian portal.