In the northeastern part of India’s largest city, a million metropolis of Mumbai, coughs moped taxis, cars and buses pass the white apartment building, while the constant honking and drowns policemen trill whistles. Far above the streets palms facing text ‘Sagar Tech Plaza A’ on the building.

The difference from the usual Danish cityscape is huge. However, the correlation between this place in Mumbai and Denmark are much closer than cultural contrasts and the distance of 6400 km suggests. The name Sagar Tech Plaza A has namely appeared on tens of thousands of doping agents Danish customs officers have seized over the past year. Primary anabolic steroids.

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The place is directly linked to the company Alpha-Pharma Healthcare. Documents obtained under the Indian Companies Registration in Mumbai shows that the company was founded in December 2005 by three Danes – one of them is still CEO. Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, is his name. Or just mr. Jacob, as he is called in India.

In the past seven years, Alpha-Pharma has grown steadily and today flourishes as many of its products on the illicit drug market in Denmark and many other countries, the Danish authorities consider the company as one of the major players on the black market.

As late as October seized Tax 1,600 ampoules of growth hormone from Alpha-Pharma Healthcare. On the illegal drug market, they have a value in the region of half a million pounds.

Also, authorities in Austria, Germany, Sweden and Norway have seized large quantities of steroids from Alpha-Pharma.

That is why we traveled to Mumbai to find out where the golden ampoules come from. And to ask mr. Jacob, why his medicine products also floating around on illicit markets in countries like USA, UK, Australia and especially Denmark.

On the 3rd floor to Sagar Tech Plaza A there is obscure. Traffic noise is muffled. At the end of a narrow time is Office 317, which has been listed on the packaging of the seized drugs in Denmark. There are no windows in the room. Two locked solid wooden doors blocking the access.

In a room to the office 317 are two elderly women in colorful saris and sew clothes. They have never heard of mr. Jacob before and it is ‘long ago’, they’ve seen someone go into the Alpha Pharma room.

‘Once there was occasionally some very early morning. But no more, “said one of the Indians.

On one of the bright wooden doors into the office 317 is a dirty piece of paper with pen snow felled words glued:

»Office has changed address to: Alpha-Pharma Healthcare, B/205 Universal Business Park, Chandivali Farm Road ‘.

The basement of Bramslykkevej
Jacob Sporon-Fiedler was born 22 August 1981 and grew up in Amager with his sister, father and mother. His mother was a teacher, his father was an IT consultant in a large Danish pharmaceutical company.

According to the book ‘If only I could’ tell … ‘, as Jacob Sporon-Fiedler’s mother wrote after she had a stroke. In this she talks about the boy’s upbringing.

“We got caravan and since allotment. We flourished in our quiet life in Amager, “writes the mother of his book.

The kid with the brown hair, glasses and a penchant for rock icon Marilyn Manson loved to sit at the computer. In time, he also created a lot of interest in order to train his body, get the muscles to swell.

‘For the first time he distanced himself more and more from it all. It may well be because of his interests, which I had difficulty putting me into (…) he went to the fitness and bodybuilding and playing PC games. I would have liked, he concentrated on his high school, but he would rather everything else – it worried me a lot, “said the father of a paragraph in the book.

Photo: Jeppe Laursen Brock and skati late 1990s, Jacob Sporon-Fiedler part of the Copenhagen bodybuilder circuit – an environment that is known to be infected by anabolic steroids because the body has a natural limit to muscle growth rate and maximum level .

The limit exceeds thousands of people by taking performance-enhancing drugs.

A few years later he founded the company Alpha Pharma Group in the basement for a red block on Bramslykkevej in Valby. More specifically, 22 February 2005. According to the Danish company records the company was engaged in ‘wholesale of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. ” The other residents of the apartment block had no idea what was going on in the basement.

“There was always drawn white blinds, so it was impossible to see anything,” remembers a lady who has lived at the address for 20 years.

Shortly after the formation of Alpha Pharma Group in Valby drew Jacob Sporon-Fiedler east to found the company’s Indian unit, Alpha-Pharma Healthcare.

»Jacob lives in India, where he started a business. He comes home a few times a year ‘, says in the book’ If only I could ‘tell …’ in which the father also says:

“In some areas, I think that Jacob was allowed to shift for itself (…). When I look back today, I think the kids after all did good. There were so many holes they could fall into the teens with drugs and bad friends. But they have had a good social network that has backed them up. They both live a reasonable life today, and I’m proud of. ”

Mumbai: The pink folder
Deputy Commissioner K. B. Shende almost disappears behind the large wood desk. Only the upper part of a dark shirt and a round, semi-called head with a thin, gray mustache protrude.

He sits at one of the offices of the Food and Drug Administration Maharashtra – the Indian authority issuing the license to pharmaceutical companies in Mumbai region.

“I have the papers here,” says Shende.

He points to a pink folder, 1-2 centimeters thick and adorned written in black magic marker: ‘Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’, it says. The air conditioner summer and keeps the 35 degrees out, while dark blinds to block the sunlight. The room is dark, even though it is in the middle of the day.

In addition to the Commissioner sitting there for five Indians on wooden chairs around the office. They say nothing, but notes diligently, as the conversation progresses. India is known to cherish thoroughly about his business when coming skeptical journalists to visit.

“Look here, they have all the licenses in order,” said Deputy Commissioner KB Shende on singing Indian-English.

Of the documents in the pink folder, it appears that Alpha-Pharma Healthcare 11 July this year had renewed its rights to sell pharmaceutical products five years. For summer 2017.

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At the same time viewer Deputy Commissioner a series of agreements which the Danish-owned company has entered into with various Indian manufacturers of steroids, growth hormones and other substances.

It is recognized companies as Maneesh, Emil and Akorn – all with surname Pharmaceuticals.

In other words, Alpha-Pharma Healthcare papers are in order. The company is legal in India and gets its products manufactured by companies recognized in the international pharmaceutical industry.

But their products are still illegal when they end up in countries where they are not authorized. The area interests Deputy Commissioner, however, not. He only goes up in that companies remain within India’s laws.

“We give permission to export, but it is up to each country, whether they will approve products,” says Shende and gulping down a mouthful of sweet tea with milk in it.

Behind the large dark desk he leans back and disappear even more. Then he starts asking questions.

“It is a good company, it is growing and doing well. It is nothing wrong with. Why are interested in you for it? ‘.

Around the wooden chairs notes five Indian men on.

The start of an Indian adventure
On the internet it takes lots of stories about Alpha Pharma. In numerous doping forums are the muscle pumping users frequently on the company’s founding, and one view is repeated:

‘Alpha-Pharma is a Danish company set up in Mumbai, India, with the aim of feeding bodybuilder people, “which profile’ Firefly ‘put it on the website eroids.com mainly composed of steroids.

In the corresponding Danish forum bodyhouse.nu describes’ dul-le ‘Alpha Pharma as a company, “which primarily feed on supplying steroids to the Danish market, which is owned by a Dane.’ Elsewhere on the Internet telling people a more detailed story about Jacob Sporon-Fiedlers rationale for founding his company in India – however, without mentioning him by name.

“Our research reveals that Alpha-Pharma was founded by a former black-market dealer (of steroids, ed.), And he runs the company now,” writes the profile ‘amboss’ on bodybuilding depot.de. Also, the person behind the name ‘gh15′ on the website getbig.com describes that the Indian company’s founder was ‘known in the environment for a long time as a good source that dealt with products’.

“So he decided to open a company in India that would have licenses in order, for it is very easy to get in India. So he created Alpha-Pharma, “writes ‘gh15′.

Photo: Jeppe Laursen Brock and Tax Pretty much the same story we have been told by an anonymous source close to the Alpha-Pharma Healthcare – regardless of the numerous posts on the internet.

The person reports that the company’s Danish founder himself took steroids sold doping products in Denmark and had a dream to become an Indian company legally able to produce steroids for the illegal world.

“The goal was to become something big in the world,” said the source.

Today, the authorities in many parts of the globe at least see that Jacob Sporon-Fiedlers legally produced substances floating on the illicit market. At the same time his product list as tailored for people who want to take a shortcut to a lean body.

All Alpha-Pharma products can either increase muscle mass, improve the ability to train hard or treat the side effects, one steroidkur can cause. For example, impotence and breast enlargement in men.

It also sells Dane’s company two anabolic steroids, trenbolone, boldenone, which is designed to increase muscle mass and appetite in cattle and horses – not humans.

In bodybuilder circles this is considered even the two substances as a clear sign that the company is a doping enterprise. Muscle Fanatics are the only people who use the so-called horse steroids, it said. “No legitimate pharmaceutical company would produce or market trenbolone,” writes ‘MuscleMcMannus’ on getbig.com.

Mumbai: The meeting with mr. Joseph
The name is in bold capitals on the door: ALPHA PHARMA R & D CENTRE – research and development department. Office is located in a poorly explored time in business complex Oberoi Gardens Estate.

The four buildings are plastered in a red-yellowish color, but many places enters the concrete clearly. A little waste floating in the farms, in some places the houses are patched together by blue tarpaulins.

Within the corridors, conditions are better. The walls are white, the floors covered with marble, and the polished surface matches the man well, which will come out of Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s office. The purple shirt is ironed, dark pants pressed, he smells clean. Politely rows of squat, black-haired man with glasses his hand:

“Mr. Joseph ‘, he presents himself, and a sign reveals that he is quality manager.

Hello, is Mr.. Jacob at the office today?

“No, he is in Singapore for a private errand. Maybe he comes back next week, maybe earlier, “corresponds mr. Joseph.

The man is articulate, gracious and smiling so broadly that his white teeth is in sharp contrast to the dark skin. As Head of Development, he must know about Alpha Pharma has real customers in the countries where their products fueled the illegal drug markets.

How many customers the company has in Europe?

“We have no clients in Europe. Only in Southeast Asia, “said mr. Joseph.

This makes it all the more interesting answers to the question of why tens of thousands of Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s products find their way to Denmark. And to the rest of Europe, USA and Australia.

Alpha-Pharma Dane
The Indian authorities approved Alpha-Pharma Healthcare 20 December 2005. The show documents obtained in India’s commercial register. Jacob Sporon-Fiedler registered company with headquarters in New Delhi, but even then he kept primarily in Mumbai.

From the start, the three Danes in Alpha-Pharma, but one came quickly out of the company. The other was Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, and the third was stone Lorentzen, a then 37-year-old man from Hvidovre.

We have numerous ways tried to make contact with Stone Lorentzen – both via call, letter, his older brother and by visiting him at his address. He has not responded.

In the summer of 2011 came Stone Lorentzen of Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s leadership. Shortly before the police had searched his car and apartment, where officers had found 120,472 pills and ampoules of doping.

Part of the products were derived from Alpha Pharma. Later he was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but before that he managed to be a part of Jacob Sporon-Fiedlers business for well over 5 years.

Just as the director was stone Lorentzen come in the Danish bodybuilder environment for many years. For a long time the man from the Copenhagen Vestegn sold supplements for people who wanted trimmed stomachs, bulging arms and burly thighs.

He had sold muskelmad under the name Powex. Stone Lorentzen Danish company was the first sponsor of the Internet forum bodyhouse.dk which has long served as a kind of central sales of anabolic steroids and other drugs.

The site was founded late in 2002 by a Western Jutland – Tas he called himself. After he had had a bad experience with buying steroids, he decided to create Body House.

Heavily inspired by foreign sites were Tas’ goal to give the Danish bodybuilders, muscle fanatics and regular workout geeks a forum where they could advise each other. About diet, weight exercises – and doping.

Photo: Jeppe Laursen Brock and Tax
Quickly became Body House a popular place where thousands of people wrote about how to avoid fake products, enables an efficient steroidkur together the best possible inject liquids and treat side effects.

There is enough to advise each other of the dangers of drug abuse are many and serious: enlarged heart, liver problems and increased risk of blood clots, just like men can develop breasts and lose their potency. In addition, the possibility of infection because the substances frequently produced under non-sterile conditions.

But it seems the body lump people ignore when they also have the prospect of ‘gaine’ 10-15 pound of muscle during a 10-week steroidkur. So it was indeed the effects users Body House primarily wrote about.

It was the place to recommend specific drug brands – or criticize others after a bad experience. And above all was bodyhouse.dk a sales center where steroidkøberne got in touch with the sellers. So it was the side Stones Lorentzen, Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s another Dane, was the sponsor of.

Mumbai: On the border of the slum
The stench of human shit is heavy urine smell pungent, stench of rotten waste mixes stubbornly. The air is thick to breathe. It is just 20-30 meters from the entrance to the building with Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s headquarters – Universal Business Park.
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Product List
All 35 products in Alpha-Pharma Healthcare catalog suitable for people who want to take a shortcut to trim his body, these substances will either spur increased muscle mass or treat the side effects, a steroid abuse can cause:

A product like Astra Lean used with the aim of increasing fat metabolism and muscle mass.

Products Alpha-O, Alphagra and Vitagon used against side effects like hair loss, impotence and corrupted own production of testosterone.

Products Induject, Parabolin and TestoRapid are anabolic steroids stimulate muscle growth.

Products Androxine, Boldebolin and Parabolin are anabolic steroids designed for cattle and horses, but also greatly stimulates muscle growth in humans.

The product Vitex is a hormone that increases fat metabolism and the ability to train hard.

At the foot of the apartment building with the big, shiny glass facades is one of the many slums that approximately 60 percent of Mumbai’s well over 20 million inhabitants live in.

Dust has settled over everything in the area. Only blue tarps, clothes hung out to dry and a few billboards like the gray-brown carpet of low houses – many of them with holes in the walls and simple tin roofs.

A woman in sari standing over a pile of garbage cluttering the waste through along with a goat. Only on the main street through the middle of the area there are cars, homes are so close that there is only room for people between them.

However, the major thoroughfare between Alpha-Pharma Healthcare’s headquarters and slums, is more of the men outside the image of decay. They are clearly richer than most in the area. The boundary between pressed trousers, fine shirts, black leather shoes and tattered rags, dirty feet, barefoot goes right by the door into the Universal Business Park.

Three guards shut the manicured men out, and the ragged people out. The men in blue uniforms ensures that only comes people with jobs or predetermined agreements into the Universal Business Park.

“What do you want? ‘, Asking the guards.

But since it was not possible to obtain an agreement with Alpha-Pharma Healthcare in advance, with the gate closed.

The road to Denmark
It is still a mystery to the Danish authorities, how Alpha-Pharma Healthcare products coming to Denmark in such large quantities. But when companies with nefarious ulterior motives intend to smuggle illegal drugs, they have a number of tools they can adopt.

There have already seen examples of Asian companies that allies itself with agents in European countries. For example. Spain or Italy. From their position in Europe fixative agents that major doping packages come past customs officials. Once steroids and other substances are inside the EU, it is easy to drive them directly to Denmark through the Schengen open borders.

Another method may be that doping traffickers contracts with European companies who are licensed to import medicines from Asia. By the type of event beats customs are not automatic alarm. A third option is to disguise doping as belongings, hard drives, dolls or something else.

Photo: Jeppe Laursen Brock and SkatFor smugglers it is above all about finding the easiest path through the net – not necessarily the cheapest or shortest. Therefore, it also means less whether steroidpakkernes safest way to Denmark, via Singapore, to Moldova and past England first.

And it is difficult for the police to do something about the suspect companies in Asia.

“Doping is not illegal in all countries, and we are not able to do much when they come from countries where it is legal. But we look at the course when it comes to Denmark, “says Michael Ash, Acting Chief Inspector of the National Police Research Centre (NEC).

Large quantities of products from Alpha-Pharma Healthcare has found its way to Europe, USA, Canada and Australia. It provides a huge customer base, as only in Denmark is approximately 44,000 people who have tried anabolic steroids – it turned to a study by University of Southern Denmark in 2010.

The first products from Alpha-Pharma appeared in the Danish border in 2007. At that time, users of Body House to put pictures of steroids from Jacob Sporon-Fiedlers company on the Internet.

At the time, he offered just a handful of products, but today the catalog has grown to 35 items. From anabolic steroids to growth hormones used to treat side effects of drug treatments. In the same urgency as the product list is Alpha Pharma’s popularity rose in the illegal market.

“Their products work, that’s for sure. This shit is everywhere in Scandinavia, almost all dealers have them so they are easy to find, “writes someone on Rbbgear – Anabolic Steroids Blog, like Alpha-Pharma immediately the most talked about brand on Body House.

More than 25 international drug stores online markets Jacob Sporon-Fiedler products, and many of them do not hesitate to denote the Danish-owned company as a targeted drug enterprise.

‘Alpha-Pharma is a leading manufacturer of steroids. This company is known for its quality products that give huge muscle growth and small side effects, “says the example of sales since Mr. Anabolics.

Mumbai: The kingdom neighborhood
The cars are expensive, the roads are wide, there are no stray dogs, goats, at no waste in the streets and no crowds. The area in front of the newly built apartment Lake Lucerne is in sharp contrast to virtually all other neighborhoods in Mumbai.

High rise buildings are reflected in the small Chandivali lake, lawns are manicured, there is a playground, and there are even black sculptures along the way – one of the rare places with art in the city.

Lake Lucerne is one of the most fashionable places to stay in Mumbai. And it is also the home of mr. Jacob – it has Jacob Sporon-Fiedler at least even stated that he in late 2011 created an investment fund of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. There are tennis courts, squash club, gym, swimming pools and a small pavilion overlooking the water.

While the average wage for a worker in Mumbai less than 25,000 dollars a year, costing the apartments in Lake Lucerne millions more to buy – and hundreds of thousands to rent on an annual basis. This is where rigmændene live.

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In front of the entrance to the well 20 storey houses there is a solid grid, a sentry box and two guards. As with the Universal Business Park closes the only people in with a specific errand, so it’s impossible to get in and ask for mr. Jacob.

On the other hand succeeds after repeated call attempts to get through to his company. It is quite difficult, since the company website not listed contacts or email addresses. There is one number and it is not always, someone answers the calls.

“Hello, this is Alpha-Pharma Healthcare,” said a woman.

Hello, we are two journalists from Denmark, we would like to speak to mr. Jacob.

“Oh, he’s not here right now. But you can get his mobile number. ”

Millions from Seychelles
The past two years, Alpha-Pharma Healthcare recorded a profit of approximately 1 million dollars. However, it is peanuts compared to the amount, the company behind the Indian company has invested. The company called Alpha Pharma Group – and is controlled by Jacob Sporon-Fiedler itself.

Alpha Pharma Group is no longer in the basement apartment block on Bramslykkevej in Valby – the Danish branch was dissolved 14 January 2008. Instead, the company moved to the Seychelles, which is known as a widely used tax havens.

Over the past three years, Alpha Pharma Group repurchased more than 10 million in Alpha-Pharma Healthcare. So far greater amount than the Indian company serves.

It is unclear where the money comes from. On the other hand, it is certain that someone has profited from selling Alpha-Pharma products on the illicit drug market. We only have detailed knowledge of a fraction of Skats seizures in Denmark.

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But in four specific cases of the Danish-owned company’s products confiscated customs officers ampoules and pills with a value of more than 1 million dollars on the black market.

For example, costs 10 ampoules of growth hormone from Alpha-Pharma almost 3,000 dollars in steroidbutikken Sledge Hammer 2.0. A rule of thumb in the doping world of sounds that a kilo of pure anabolic steroid priced under 50,000, but brings about 1 million dollars when it is made into pills or dissolved in oil and poured on glass.

However, it is impossible to see if there is funneled dirty money into the Alpha Pharma Group in Seychelles. And the opacity is often very purpose of putting companies on the small islands off the east coast of Africa.

“A common reason for setting up a holding company in the Seychelles is that it creates complete and utter anonymity about capital structure and ownership of the company. In other words, impossible to get information about a company of Seychelles, “said Kaj Worsøe Jensen, who runs the company Anglo Corporate Services, which specializes in forming legitimate companies in tax havens.

“Only in rare cases, an authority outside retrieve information – for example, arms trafficking and drug cases. It was also the Seychelles, IT Factory-deceiver, Stein Bagger, had his company, “says Kaj Worsøe Jensen.

Brussels: Mr. Jacobs threat
Finally, the ringer will sound. After numerous unsuccessful calls from India it instantly easier to get through to mr. Jacobs phone from Brussels airport – between the station between Mumbai and Copenhagen.

On the other side of the cafeteria windows landing and taking flight in one away with passengers and parcels from around the world. Connecting continents, making the planet less.

“Hello,” said a bright male voice on the phone.

Is it Jacob?

“Yes.”

We’ll call you, because we understand that you are CEO of Alpha-Pharma Healthcare. We will see if we have to ask you a few questions about the company?

“I’ll just see if it’s you who has broken into our laboratory and have been bothered one of my staff here in Mumbai,” said Jacob Sporon-Fiedler – mr. Jacob.

Excuse me, but we can just been out knocking on your development office and met your quality manager. It was quite undramatic.

“I would like to ask for your name, and then you get the police to burglary and industrial espionage. In the sateme not break in and through photographing a laboratory that I have spent millions of dollars to build up, “he says.

He raises his voice, as the sentence progresses.

Try to hear Jacob, we have taken a picture of the door from the outside. But you gotta like get our names. My name is Christian Heide-Jørgensen, and my colleague called Jeppe Laursen Brock. We are journalists on politics and would like to ask you a few questions about Alpha-Pharma Healthcare.

“You can then try ‘.

Okay. How can it be that among other steroids and growth hormone from your company on the Danish and northern European drug market?

“Where did you come from, that they do it? It simply is not. It could not be done, “said Mr.. Jacob.

Why the Danish authorities have repeatedly confiscated large quantities of Alpha-Pharma products on the way in or out of Denmark, where the products are not allowed in the country?

“I have no idea what you’re talking about. And I have no idea what the hell it is for a country that I behave yourselves in. Now you will be reported to the Indian police, and so I just say: Good luck with getting out of Mumbai ‘.