Anti-doping probe into Tyson Fury is ONGOING despite the farmer who claimed member of Team Fury offered him £25,000 to lie about failed drugs test refusing to cooperate
- The anti-doping investigation into Tyson Fury is believed to still be ongoing
- This is despite the refusal to cooperate by farmer who claimed failed drugs test
- He claimed he had supplied Fury and his cousin with uncastrated wild boar
The anti-doping investigation into Tyson Fury is believed to be ongoing despite the refusal to cooperate by a Lancashire farmer who claimed a member of Team Fury offered him £25,000 to lie about how the fighter failed a drugs test in 2015.
Martin Carefoot made the extraordinary allegations in the Mail on Sunday in March but he told the Sunday Times at the weekend that he is not assisting UK Anti-Doping’s efforts, saying: ‘I’ve had nothing but problems right from the beginning of this, and I don’t want to get involved.’
Despite the farmer not offering formal input to enquiries, Sportsmail understands the investigation remains active.
The anti-doping probe into Tyson Fury over a failed drugs test is believed to still be ongoing
The situation originated in 2015 when Tyson Fury, the current WBC heavyweight world champion, and his cousin Hughie Fury returned positive tests for the steroid nandrolone.
The fighters’ legal team blamed the presence of nandrolone metabolites on the ‘ingestion of offal of uncastrated wild boar or pig, or alternatively from contaminated supplements’, and Carefoot later submitted two written statements to the Furys’ legal team in 2017 to say he had supplied the fighters with uncastrated wild boar.
Sportsmail has seen copies of the statements.
Fury and his cousin Hughie had returned positive tests for the steroid nandrolone in 2015
The Furys later received back-dated two-year bans in 2017 before Carefoot came forward to the Mail on Sunday earlier this year and said he invented his story in return for an alleged, unfulfilled promise of £25,000 from a member of the Fury’s entourage, issued via a friend.
The Furys could yet face suspensions of up to eight years if a charge of tampering with an investigation follows and guilt is established.
Tyson Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren has previously described Carefoot’s claims as ‘a load of rubbish’.
MTK, who represent the Furys, have not responded to Sportsmail‘s request for comment.
The Fury’s could face eight year suspensions if found guilty of tampering with an investigation