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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2014/s4118770.htm
The Australian Federal Police has been asked to investigate whether the head of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), Ben McDevitt, broken the very laws he's supposed to enforce.
The issue relates to an interview Mr McDevitt gave to the ABC's Offsiders program in August, in which he divulged information about the sports scientist at the heart of the drugs in sports scandal, Stephen Dank.
A legal academic has asked the AFP to investigate because he believes Ben McDevitt has committed a crime under the ASADA Act in relation to privacy.
The maximum penalty for such an offence is a two year jail term.
David Mark reports.
DAVID MARK: The Deakin University law lecturer, Martin Hardie, believes the CEO of ASADA, Ben McDevitt, has committed a Commonwealth crime.
MARTIN HARDIE: I believe that there should be an investigation into whether or not Mr McDevitt has breached section 71 of the ASADA Act, which creates a criminal offence for people to release what we call NAD Scheme personal information prior to certain events occurring.
The penalty for a breach of that section is imprisonment for two years.
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Hardie really is a desperate and strange little man.
The Australian Federal Police has been asked to investigate whether the head of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), Ben McDevitt, broken the very laws he's supposed to enforce.
The issue relates to an interview Mr McDevitt gave to the ABC's Offsiders program in August, in which he divulged information about the sports scientist at the heart of the drugs in sports scandal, Stephen Dank.
A legal academic has asked the AFP to investigate because he believes Ben McDevitt has committed a crime under the ASADA Act in relation to privacy.
The maximum penalty for such an offence is a two year jail term.
David Mark reports.
DAVID MARK: The Deakin University law lecturer, Martin Hardie, believes the CEO of ASADA, Ben McDevitt, has committed a Commonwealth crime.
MARTIN HARDIE: I believe that there should be an investigation into whether or not Mr McDevitt has breached section 71 of the ASADA Act, which creates a criminal offence for people to release what we call NAD Scheme personal information prior to certain events occurring.
The penalty for a breach of that section is imprisonment for two years.
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Hardie really is a desperate and strange little man.
