Jun 29, 2005
Rumsas arrested in Italy
Looks like the swift Italian justice system has come down on Raimondas Rumsas. You remember Raimi? The guy who came out of nowhere in the 2002 Tour to take third place. On the final day of the Tour Raimi’s wife was caught on the French Italian border with enough EPO and assorted drugs to stock a small hospital in Nigeria. The excuses was better than Franck Vandebroucke’s excuse, but not as convincing. They said the drugs were for the sick mother-in-law.
Ever since that day, Raimi refused to go back to France, and Raimi’s wife spent 2 months in jail. Italian carbinieri and Judges love to time arrests for the best possible publicity. They kept out of the Giro this year, but were able to finalize an arrest just days before the start of the Tour giving the press some additional subjects to ponder.