Galabin Boevski, a Bulgarian weightlifter, World Champion and Olympic Champion, was sentenced to nine months in jail because of illicit international drug trade. This athlete was arrested in October 2011 at the Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil after he tried to board the plane with eight kg of cocaine. This weightlifter was led to Bulgaria. Cocaine was estimated. It could be sold at the price of 500, 000 dollars on the streets in countries of Europe.
Galabin Boevski is a well-known sportsman in Bulgaria. He is claimed to be one of the most celebrated weightlifters in this country.
First he was caught administering steroids in 1995. Undoubtedly, he was sentenced to suspension.
Then this sportsman was caught taking prohibited products in 2004. It was the second time when he violated doping rules. Actually, Boevski didn’t test positive for any forbidden medications. But anti-doping officials defined that he didn’t provide own urine. The urine which was provided by this sportsman belonged to another individual. As a result, Galabin Boevski was sentenced to 8-year suspension. During serving the suspension he was caught smuggling cocaine.
Boevski became famous due to his achievements in weightlifting. This sportsman won gold medals at several competitions: at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships in Athens, the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Antalya.
At the 2003 World Championships in Vancouver Galabin Boevski and his teammates from Bulgaria provided urine samples that belonged to another person. It was defined by anti-doping officials that the 3 urine samples belonged to one individual. These sportsmen were sentenced to suspensions. Boevski appealed the suspension but it was not successful.
Galabin Boevski broke several world records at various competitions. He held 3 world records. The best lifts of this sportsman were following: a 162, 5 kg snatch, 196, 5 kg clean and jerk and a 357, 5 kg of two lifts at the 1999 Championships.
It is strange but this sportsman’s reputation was not spoiled in Bulgaria. He applied his status of celebrity in sports in order to establish a Technogym fitness center in Sofia. The center was named Atama Wellness and Spa.
Furthermore, the Brazilian judge Maria Isabel do Prado confirmed that Galabin Boevski applied also his status of celebrity in sports in order to traffic the narcotic cocaine. She also noted that this weightlifter utilized the participation of his daughter in a Brazilian tennis tournament to cover his illegal operations related to smuggling of the narcotic.
The weightlifter Galabin Boevski claimed that he would appeal the conviction.
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