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...if you didnt know...
Felix Sturm was arrested on April 5th, at the FIBO Fitness Expo in Germany.
Why?
The German IRS is after him and they already have enough evidence against him to justify him getting arrested.
Between 2009 and 2016, Sturm was his own promoter (SBP) and was banking in around 2million$ a fight.
They say just a small amount of this was taxed to the goverment and the rest was transfered to some financial company in switzerland...and then transfered back to his Promotion...
Meanwhile, Sturm moved from Germany back to his homecountry of Bosnia...with wife and kids...
With that move...he is not reachable for the german law enforcement.
But when he appeared the FIBO...they weren't playing around and arrested him right there...
He is not allowed to be bailed out...because of the risk of him just fleeing back to Bosnia.
Also, he has not been found guilty yet.
But...as already said...they got enough evidence so far...that it looks like he will be found guilty, instead of the other way around...
On top of that...they are now getting ready for his doping case, again.
So far this happened...
In 2016, Sturm defeated Fedor Chudinov by way decision, becoming a two-weight world champion.Later after the fight, the doping samples that were taken from Sturm before the fight were suddenly challenged, however, the sample documents were not complete, as the location, time of arrival was not documented. Due to this inaccuracy, Sturm was not stripped of his titles. He then relocated to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Doping allegations
He broke the silence two months later with a post which he shared via Instagram where he complained about being treated unfairly by the doping investigators. Sturm wrote that he was only informed two months after the first doping sample about the results and that he wasn't told why it took longer than usual (two weeks). After engaging a lawyer who requested all the required documents from the investigators he noticed that the last page was missing, "...where is written, when my sample arrived at the laboratory, who received it and who analysed the sample.", it was written in that social media post. He allegedly didn't get an answer after submitting further inquiries and was denied the right to let the b-sample be analysed by another laboratory. Sturm claimed that the WBA refrained from suspending him because of these irregularities.
...so he might also be facing a trail against him for battery...
...if you want some sources i can post them...but those are in German...so good luck reading that
Felix Sturm was arrested on April 5th, at the FIBO Fitness Expo in Germany.
Why?
The German IRS is after him and they already have enough evidence against him to justify him getting arrested.
Between 2009 and 2016, Sturm was his own promoter (SBP) and was banking in around 2million$ a fight.
They say just a small amount of this was taxed to the goverment and the rest was transfered to some financial company in switzerland...and then transfered back to his Promotion...
Meanwhile, Sturm moved from Germany back to his homecountry of Bosnia...with wife and kids...
With that move...he is not reachable for the german law enforcement.
But when he appeared the FIBO...they weren't playing around and arrested him right there...
He is not allowed to be bailed out...because of the risk of him just fleeing back to Bosnia.
Also, he has not been found guilty yet.
But...as already said...they got enough evidence so far...that it looks like he will be found guilty, instead of the other way around...
On top of that...they are now getting ready for his doping case, again.
So far this happened...
In 2016, Sturm defeated Fedor Chudinov by way decision, becoming a two-weight world champion.Later after the fight, the doping samples that were taken from Sturm before the fight were suddenly challenged, however, the sample documents were not complete, as the location, time of arrival was not documented. Due to this inaccuracy, Sturm was not stripped of his titles. He then relocated to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Doping allegations
He broke the silence two months later with a post which he shared via Instagram where he complained about being treated unfairly by the doping investigators. Sturm wrote that he was only informed two months after the first doping sample about the results and that he wasn't told why it took longer than usual (two weeks). After engaging a lawyer who requested all the required documents from the investigators he noticed that the last page was missing, "...where is written, when my sample arrived at the laboratory, who received it and who analysed the sample.", it was written in that social media post. He allegedly didn't get an answer after submitting further inquiries and was denied the right to let the b-sample be analysed by another laboratory. Sturm claimed that the WBA refrained from suspending him because of these irregularities.
...so he might also be facing a trail against him for battery...
...if you want some sources i can post them...but those are in German...so good luck reading that
And he won the second one, which was bad scoring in my opinion (and doping?).
