On 7 June the stage was canceled following the searches of the NAS in the hotels of Sanremo where the teams participating in the Giro used to stay.

He returned to the Giro d'Italia, but while still managing to stay with the leaders, he finished with a modest 10th place in the standings, 11'50" off the winner Paolo Savoldelli.

Following the statements made by Dario Frigo, the Police Chief Jean-Philippe Casano carried out in-depth investigations and testified to the Judges as follows: "The inquiry diligently complies with your instructions allows us to verify and validate the assertions contained in Dario Frigo's letter, in particular identifying the different protagonists that he puts in question in a doping organization within his old team Fassa Bortolo, now dissolved."

validated Frigo's statements on the existence of an omerta in the sports world concerning doping practices within teams such as the Fassa Bortolo.

The Chambéry Court, in the reasons for the sentence, states: "The investigations carried out on a rogatory commission have made it possible to give credibility to the architecture of the system denounced by Dario Frigo, that is a practice of doping athletes institutionalized and organized by the Fassa Bortolo team leaders even if the instructor magistrate complained about the absence of any collaboration with the Italian authorities.

"The pressures suffered by Dario Frigo to bow to new systematic doping practices institutionalized within his team are clear".

The humiliations and harassment of the Fassa Bortolo executives particularly hit a runner whose physical and psychological health had been fragile for years of doping in a "scandalous system far from sport ethics".

And the conditioning suffered by the rider in a proven environment in which the use of doping is defined as institutionalized has justified "the gentler application of the criminal law" (Dossier nr.

During the interrogation D96 in front of the Police Chief Jean-Philippe Casano, Ferretti declares: "the (Frigo) était payé près de ... euros par a et à ce tarif qui, an employer a le droit de faire pression ...".

The Ravenna Court branch of Lugo established that the Fassa Bortolo did not close due to Dario Frigo case.

The judge of the Treviso Court declares: "Faced with the investigations carried out by the French authority, the "Fassa Bortolo has proved nothing about the falsity of what Frigo said, given that the apparent formal rigor towards the use of illicit substances taken by the company Fassa Bortolo was then denied by the choices made by the company itself", in particular, it cannot be overlooked that it was made use of by a sports director, Giancarlo Ferretti, with not particularly clear background, having himself proceeded to hire riders already convicted of doping or having worked to obtain the collaboration for Fassa Bortolo "and for payment "in black", by Dr. Marcos Maynar, known for his experiments and the use of prohibited substances".