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Massimo Besnati

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I was researching something and came across this man, Massimo Besnati who's currently employed by Katusha as a doctor. Nothing's wrong with that, but this page here claims he was prosecuted for possession of steroids in 2001 in what they called Le blitz du Giro. He worked for Mapei at the time.

Any other info on this man among The Clinic? (I used the search already, nothing came up)?
 
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Jacques de Molay said:
A quick look at some of his previous employers.

http://www.dopeology.org/people/Massimo_Besnati/

Gewiss - Playbus
Batik - Del Monte
Riso Scotti - MG Maglificio
Riso Scotti - Vinavil
Mapei - QuickStep
Alessio
Alessio - Bianchi
Fassa Bortolo
Team Milram
Fuji - Servetto
Footon - Servetto
Katusha

Footon and Fuji were Mauro Gianetti's Saunier Duval.

did not Gianetti almost lose his life to perfluorocarbons? He went into a coma, or something serious. I know Johan Museeuw almost lost his leg in a Roubaix accident because of the perfluorocarbons. So goes the popular myth. Could be apocryphal.

Libertine Seguros will know