Cycling: Adriano Quintanilha and PJ inspector to stand trial | OneFootball

A Judicial Police inspector and Adriano Quintanilha will go to trial accused of having devised a plan to prevent the businessman from being implicated in the doping scheme of the cycling team.

The Penafiel Criminal Instruction Court decided to proceed to trial after both defendants requested the opening of instruction, an optional phase intended to decide whether the process should continue and under what terms. The investigation originated from searches conducted in April 2022 within the scope of Operation Clean Proof.

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the 72-year-old businessman contacted "his friend, who he knew was a Judicial Police inspector" and both drafted a document "aimed at attesting that Adriano Quintanilha and the Calvário Várzea Association were unaware of the practices under investigation".

The defendants are accused of document forgery; the businessman also faces a coercion charge and the inspector a personal favoritism charge.

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