The fate of Romanian football star Adrian Mutu will be decided today (Weds).He will appear before Italian Olympic Committee anti-doping prosecutors in Rome in the sibutramine doping case.
Mutu, 31, currently playing for Italian club Fiorentina, will defend himself, saying he didn't know pills for losing weight that he had been taking had contained the banned substance as their label hadn’t mentioned it. The pills were said to be 100 per cent natural, according to the label.
The Italian National Anti-doping Court indefinitely suspended Mutu in February after he had failed anti-doping tests.
Mutu tested positive for sibutramine in tests carried out on 10 January after a match with Bari and on 20 January after a match with Lazio. Mutu scored two goals in the match against Lazio Roma that Fiorentina won by a score of 3-2. His team thereby qualified for the Italy Cup semi-finals.
Sibutramine is an anorectic or appetite suppressant that reduces a person’s desire to eat.
Last year, Mutu was ordered to pay Chelsea more than 14 million GBP in compensation for having tested positive for cocaine in 2004 while playing at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge.
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