Anabolic steroid

Police officers arrested a 24-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman in the central Athens neighborhood of Pagrati on Friday night on charges of drug possession, moving counterfeit currency, and weapon possession.

Moldova has long played a major role in the illicit trade in anabolic steroids. But was the country's envoy to Russia also in on the act?

Former ambassador Andrei Neguta was detained on Monday evening but denied prosecutors' claims that he was involved in smuggling anabolic steroids from Moldova to the Russian Federation.

However, prosecutors decided to detain him for 72 hours while reviewing the evidence.

Thousands of tablets and vials containing anabolic steroids were seized on Monday during a police operation in the wider region of Thebes, central Greece.

The tablets had been hidden beneath olives in a metal container on a transport company truck.

According to reports, a total of 21,068 tablets and 2,971 vials containing anabolic steroids were confiscated.

A police operation on Monday led to the arrest of 11 Greeks - 10 men and a woman - believed to be members of an international criminal racket dealing in anabolic steroids in Greece and other countries.

Working together, officers of the Greek Police (ELAS) and the Financial Police conducted simultaneous raids in Attica, Crete and Epirus.

Bulgarian customs officers have thwarted an attempt to smuggle seven kilogrammes of amphetamines to Turkey through  Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, the National Customs Agency in Sofia announced on Wednesday.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the Bulgarian Weighlifters Federation (BWF) appeal of a 2016 Rio Olympics ban imposed on the country's athletes over positive doping cases.

"The BWF remains banned from entering the next edition of the Olympic Games," the Lausanne-based top court for sports said in a statement.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) expects to rule this week on the doping-related ban of Bulgarian weightlifters from the 2016 Olymics in Rio de Janeiro, the AP has reported.

Customs officials at Bulgaria's Danube Bridge 2 checkpoint in Vidin, at the border with Romania, have seized nearly 15,000 vials marked as containing anabolic steroids being smuggled in a Slovak-registered van.

The vehicle carried packages of dog food to Slovakia, according to the cargo manifest. The starting point of the trip was not disclosed.

BELGRADE - Members of the Serbian parliament concluded a principled debate on the draft law on the prevention of doping in sport, which will ensure that Serbian legislation is fully harmonized with international regulations in this respect and the new World Anti-Doping Code, which will come into force next year.

A total of 16 amendments will be discussed on October 15.