Papa Frigo: "My son is not a scoundrel"

By Tim Maloney, European Editor

Although Fassa Bortolo team manager Giancarlo Ferretti called Dario Frigo a "scoundrel with a capital S" in a hysterical TV interview with RAI-Sport-TV's Auro Bulbarelli last week, Frigo's father Rosello and sister Elga have stepped in to defend Dario. On July 12th, Frigo's wife Susanna was stopped by French customs police near Chambéry and when her car was searched, they found a thermos with what was alleged to be 10 vials of EPO under a layer of ice. Susanna Frigo was detained and the next morning, Dario Frigo was brought in for questioning by French gendarmes. That evening, Frigo and his wife were released on €30,000 bail and returned to their home in Monte Carlo, but the couple will have to return to France soon for pre-trial guarded custody at the house of French friends. Susanna Frigo risks three years in prison for trafficking illicit substances, while Frigo himself risks two years in the pokey as an accessory to trafficking.

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