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515. Reference has been made to Mr Xu’s statement to the ASADA investigator about GL

Biochem. The Tribunal has accepted his statement that he supplied TB4 to Mr

Charter. However, the statement about the company is self-serving. Mr Xu is

responding to an investigator about the supply of substances by his company, which

are the subject of an investigation. In these circumstances, it can be expected that Mr

Xu would wish to portray his company in a favourable light. In the Tribunal’s view,


little weight can be attached to his statement about the company and his assertion that


what in fact was supplied was TB4.


516. Further, if there was a certificate of analysis of the TB4 purportedly supplied, it might

be expected that Mr Xu would refer to it in his discussion with the journalist and the

investigator. It is something of significance. He did not produce any documents to

ASADA and told the investigator he had provided all the documents that his company

still had on hand to the journalist. However, no reference is made to a certificate in


the newspaper article. Having regard to the purpose of the article, it can be inferred


from this that no certificate was supplied to the journalist by Mr Xu, which tends to


support a conclusion that there was no such certificate.

Essendon players reportedly suffered painful side effects from injections given by sports scientist Stephen Dank.

In transcripts from the AFL anti-doping tribunal hearings, published in News Corp papers on Monday, players detailed hot flushes, numb backsides and intense pain during the supplements scheme.

One player said the injections were "like concrete going into your arse".

When interviewed by Mr Hargreaves, Mr Charter stated that he had purchased Thymosin Alpha (which is not a prohibited substance) from RD Peptides when on his Shanghai trip in November 2011. He produced at his second interview a purchase contract with the letterhead of RD Peptides listing a purchase of ten 1g vials of “Thymosin”. It is submitted by the ASADA CEO that there are a number of reasons why this evidence should not be accepted, which are set out. One of these is that there is evidence that suggests that the purchase contract was fabricated after the interview on 7 November 2014. Metadata for the document discloses that it was created using Adobe Photoshop on 24 November 2014. This suggests the document is not a photo of an actual document, but a version created in Photoshop.

bazza wrote:The AFL should pay back all the government money they have taken over the years and opt out of WADA