This archive report was first published on 6 August 2020.
Published on August 6, 2020, Russia's anti-doping agency, RUSADA, is facing a crisis after its supervisory board recommended that the agency's founders, Russia's Olympic and Paralympic committees, consider firing its director, Yuri Ganus, over allegations of serious financial irregularities.
Ganus, who was appointed director in August 2017, has denied the allegations made by Russia's Olympic Committee last month, portraying them as a political attack on his agency and its efforts to clear up Russia's sporting image.
The Olympic Committee has stated that it will soon set a date to meet the Paralympic Committee to decide on Ganus' fate, with President Stanislav Pozdnyakov saying that the supervisory board's decision 'looks unambiguous.'
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has expressed extreme concern over the supervisory board's recommendation and has sought clarification from the Russian authorities.
RUSADA was conditionally reinstated in September 2018 after being suspended in 2015 over a doping scandal, but was declared non-compliant late last year after WADA found Moscow had provided it with doctored laboratory data.
