Believing his agency has been the victim of fraud, Ganus said, he has written to the public prosecutor’s office in Moscow to demand that it reopen the investigation. “I believe in this report,” Ganus said. The report also found examples of transactions with so-called “one-day” companies, which are operational for a short period of time, or for just a tiny number of transactions, before disappearing. “We ask to pay attention to these purchases as a possible case of financial abuse by the key management of the organization,” the Baker Tilly report said. His departure came after WADA, the global doping regulator, suspended the agency for what it said was an industrial-scale doping operation involving Russian athletes.

Source: International New York Times February 18, 2020 18:33 UTC