The case of Jan Ullrich
The first mentioning of Jan
Ullrich in the report (page 15) is: „Jan Ulrich seems to be the rider who gave a blood sample with No. 1 and JAN written
on it.“
The name JAN also appears in
several other documents like in sheet No. 32 specifying PEDs the person known by the alias JAN had recieved.
According to the Guardia Civil
Jan Ullrich appeared in quite a multi-faceted cast of no less than 5 different aliases in the dossier. The investigators write
that they assume that he is not only No.1, YO and JAN, as concluded from different documents, but also Hijo de Rudicio and
„a third person“, as mentioned in phone calls and text messages. In addition Ullrich is supposed to feature in
Fuentes' records and correspondence under his civil, albeit misspellt, name.
The Guardia Civil recorded two phone calls between Fuentes and a mobile phone with a Belgian phone number. The Guardia
Civil also intercepted a text message „My friend , when can we have a chat?, which
was send by a person who called himself „Rudicio“.
On May 18 Rudicio told Fuentes,
in one of these phone calls Fuentes received from this Belgian number, that the „third person“ had won. On that
day Jan Ullrich won a stage of the Giro d' Italia. On May 20 Fuentes was called again from the same Belgian number. This time
Rudicio told Fuentes that he had spoken to the third person in the bus and that this person was willing to do something, even if it would be only half.
The investigators continue in
their report that „assuming the third person is Jan Ullrich it would seem likely that the bus mentioned is the T-Mobile
bus and that the person who spoke to Ullrich in the bus is possibly Belgian according to his mobile phone number. This would
then make it possible to assume that Rudicio is Rudy Pevenage the former Belgian sport director of the T-Mobile team who was
also Jan Ullrich's mentor in the past years. „
Again the investigators do not
mention wether the Belgian phone number was actually identified as belonging to Pevenage. Furthermore the T-Mobile cycling team up to 2006 had its headquarters in Belgium (Godefroot's adress), so it is possible that
several employees of the team have Belgian mobile phone numbers and access to the bus, should the number be connected to this
team at all.
One of the theories of some
German media was that JAN (aka No. 1) and Birillo (aka No. 2) had to be big names because they were listed under „nivel
1 superior“ in a document of May 4, 2004 (see picture 2). While German media drew the conclusion that „superior“
must refer to top level riders, consultation of a dictionary reveals that „superior“ (lying on top) might as well
refer to the top level shelf in the fridge since the Guardia Civil refers to this document as specifying the distribution
of the bloodbags to the respective levels of one fridge. In other words Fuentes could just have meant that these bloodbags
are in the top compartment of the fridge and shelves are numbered from top to bottom. Considering that confusing blood bags
and thus injecting someone with other than his own blood could be lifethreatening for the injected this explanation would
make much more sense.
There are more inconsistencies
in the Guardia Civil's report. This is to be continued in part II, which we will publish soon.
Part 2: Fuentes knew his phone was tapped and much more:
