the colombian cyclist Miguel Angel ‘Superman’ Lopez will finally testify before the investigating court a drug trafficking network as a witness and not as investigated, since the magistrate has agreed to nullify that initial summons scheduled for the month of October.
Legal sources have informed Efe that in an order issued this Monday, the court number 4 of Cáceres that instructs the investigations of the Civil Guard in the framework of an operation on drug trafficking has dictated that his statement be as a witness and that he be summoned once the cycling tour of Spain that the Colombian is disputing is over.
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The name of the cyclist was linked to the so-called Operation Ilex when some media reported that he had been arrested on July 22 at the Madrid airport, although the Civil Guard only registered his luggage in a routine control within the framework of your inquiries.
However, he was charged in the case and summoned to testify in October, a decision that his defense appealed, exercised by Javier de las Heras Dargel and Alfredo Gómez.
After the news appeared at the end of July, his team, the Astana Qazaqstanprovisionally suspended the cyclist that same day, although on August 1 he agreed to reinstate him in the team in the absence of any finding by the Spanish authorities or the International Cycling Union (UCI).
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His lawyers have always denied that he was detained at the airport or that he had any relationship or involvement in criminal acts linked to the distribution of unauthorized medicines or any other prohibited product.
In addition, they defend in a statement sent to Efe that the cyclist has always been “respectful” of the rules.
