AFL scoffs at explosive accusations alleging drug cheating and secret testing

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The AFL won’t examine documents alleging widespread drug use and a secret testing regime in the sport, the league’s chief executive Andrew Dillon says. Sport Integrity Australia is investigating claims about secretive illicit drug tests in the AFL raised under parliamentary privilege by federal MP Andrew Wilkie.

responds to drugs bombshell. Wilkie told parliament last week he had documents alleging widespread drug use at the Melbourne club and also detailing a league-wide secret testing regime. Wilkie said the documents came from the Demons’ former club doctor Zeeshan Arain and ex-president Glen Bartlett. Despite the ensuing furore, the AFL’s Dillon says he hasn’t read the Wilkie documents. “No, I haven’t seen them,” Dillon told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.

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