Stephen Dank at his Ascot Vale home. Picture: Tony Gough Source: Herald Sun
Shane Charter reportedly supplied Stephen Dank with supplements, while it emerged he also has links with Essendon coach James Hird. Source: Herald Sun
THE man at the centre of the Essendon drug scandal is a director of a company marketing peptides banned from sale in Australia and outlawed in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Stephen Dank, the football club's performance scientist, co-owns the Sydney-based Medical Rejuvenation Clinic, which boasts "a substantial range of Australian-produced Protein Peptides ... at very competitive prices".
Its website makes special reference to 15 products, including GHRP-6, CJC-1295, IGF-1, SARM, Hexarelin and MGF, which the Therapeutic Goods Administration said were "not registered for use in Australia" and "should not be available for commercial supply or sale".
The peptides are also strictly prohibited for use by professional athletes both in and out of competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The company was formed by Mr Dank with three co-directors in August 2011 - months before Mr Dank joined the Bombers on a three-year contract.
Mr Dank - known by some in the gym world as "the Peptide King" - yesterday confirmed his involvement in the business but said: "The company is legal."
However, another Sydney-based director told the Herald Sun it was a "grey area" and the company "gets round the legality of it by getting doctors to issue scripts".
"You can come into our clinic in Bondi and we have a doctor who will write you a script or you can order through our website," he said.
"We will then send you a PDF form asking for additional info and, by good grace, a script will be formulated and you'll get your goods from our compound chemist the following day."
It has also emerged convicted drug trafficker Shane Charter, who reportedly supplied Mr Dank with supplements, has links with Essendon coach James Hird.
Hird and Mr Charter - known by some as Dr Ageless - worked together for 12 months on his diet and fitness during the champion's premiership and Brownlow Medal-winning career.
Mr Charter was also hailed as "the architect" behind Demon Shane Woewodin's 2000 Brownlow Medal win.
There is no suggestion that Woewodin or Hird ever took banned substances.
But it was the Brownlow accolade that made Mr Charter in high demand with the league's best.
"It was a list that read like the who's who of the AFL," a former friend said.
He added Mr Charter would often mention he would have coffee with gangland figure Carl Williams most days.
And a former Melbourne footballer claims Mr Charter used to advise several Demons players on what to take to aid performance and recover "like European cyclists".
"He put me on a range of injections and supplements. I didn't know what the f--- I was taking, but my recovery was outstanding," the former player said. "I felt unstoppable some days.
"It cost me $10,000 so it wasn't cheap."
Mr Charter's partner, Donna, last night defended him, saying despite his prison past he was not involved in anything illegal now.
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