Christian Frommert, director of Sponsoring Communications for Deutsche Telekom, the parent firm of the sponsor for T-Mobile Team, has withdrawn from the Board of Trustees of the German National Anti-Doping Agency, it was announced Thursday. He said that he wished to increase the independence of the NADA and remove its connection to the team.
"Deutsche Telekom will remain a supporter of the NADA and continue to support the work which it does, which has become and will continue to become very important," Frommert told the dpa press agency.
Deutsche Telekom is the largest contributor to the NADA, with a sum of 450,000 euro this year.
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