Alexey Velikodniy3, employed by the CSP from 2013 through to 2015 until the loss of accreditation of the Moscow Laboratory. For a brief period in late 2013 a third Liaison person, Dr. Avak Abalyan, currently the Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Science fulfilled this role. The IP investigative has analysed and confirmed that communication from these individuals originated from private email accounts. The IP is aware of at least 2 occasions where Zhelanova used her official MofS @minsport.gov.ru email account to communicate information related to a urine sample to and from the Laboratory. According to Dr. Rodchenkov, the Liaison process was endorsed by the Russian Deputy Minister of Sport Yury Nagornykh ("Deputy Minister Nagornykh") after he took office. The Deputy Minister gave instructions to Dr. Rodchenkov to convey all positive screen results to Zhelanova and she would then report to Deputy Minister Nagornykh. Once the Liaison person received the Athlete Profile, he or she proceeded to obtain the identity of the athlete through contacting RUSADA and by providing the bottle number of the identified urine sample. RUSADA obtained the identity 3 The CSP is based in a separate building to the Ministry of Sport. Nevertheless, according to Rodchenkov Velikodniy had his office three doors away from the office of Deputy Minister Nagornykh.
The IP investigation has identified a role played by FSB Blokhin and two other unidentified persons from the FSB in the operations of both the Moscow and the Sochi laboratories. The FSB role is not interference and control, like that of the Deputy Minister of Sport, but assistance in arranging and operating the State sponsored system of sample swapping that occurred in connection with: the 2013 University Games and IAAF Championships, the Sochi laboratory and in the lead up to the WADA seizure of samples in December 2014. Dr. Rodchenkov was stitched into the FSB structure in furtherance of the FSB assistance to the laboratories. Dr. Rodchenkov informed the IP during a face to face interview that when he became the Director of the Moscow Laboratory he signed a document which made him an FSB agent code name "KUTS". He was responsible for reporting everything to his FSB superior from which the reporting would go up the chain of command to an FSB General. The FSB agent who most regularly visited the Moscow Laboratory was Officer Blokhin. FSB Blokhin was under a different FSB chain of command structure than Dr. Rodchenkov. Dr. Rodchenkov's evidence is that FSB Blokhin was very involved in collecting sample bottles and caps of bottles from the Moscow laboratory. This was all part of the FSB's work to develop a methodology for removing the caps on urine sample bottles described in Chapter 5.
was available to the IP in relation to the University Games. However, further investigation may identify additional examples. 2013 Moscow IAAF World Championships ("Moscow Championships") The IC reported extensively on the issues surrounding the Moscow Championships. As a result of the IP investigation, new documentary evidence and witness testimony was assessed and enabled the IP to conduct a more in depth review of the evidence. According to Dr. Rodchenkov, the lessons learned from the pre-competition testing prior to the London Games resulted in using the classical doping scheme described above, given that there existed a high risk that pre-competition samples would be reanalyzed by a third party such as WADA. In advance of the World Championships, Russian athletes provided their urine to the laboratory for analysis in unofficial bottles or containers. This way an assessment could be made of an athlete's viability to compete without reporting any samples in ADAMS. During the competition, protected athletes' sample numbers from their DCF would be texted or phoned through to the Moscow Laboratory. It was clear to the laboratory personnel that under no circumstances were samples from these