Overview

• Proceedings began at 9:30 a.m. at Landgericht München I, and the court, prosecution and defense quickly entered a legal discussion that could lead to a negotiated outcome contingent on a confession.
• Customs investigators report seizing 240,189 tablets and 32 liters of finished substances in ampoules from the operation.
• Prosecutors allege the defendant exceeded the statutory threshold for a not insignificant amount by roughly 25,000 times.
• Authorities say the setup functioned as an underground laboratory for manufacturing and trading doping agents, discovered in the defendant’s apartment in August of last year.
• The Munich customs office logged 142 pharmaceutical and doping investigations in 2024, yet officials call this case extraordinary compared with the past five years.