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Sports scientist Stephen Dank suing Nine, Cronulla Sharks.

Stephen Dank has launched defamation cases against Nine and the Cronulla Sharks following claims he injected NRL players with illegal drugs.

2013-03-27_1637Former AFL and NRL Sports Scientist Stephen Dank has launched defamation cases against Nine and the Cronulla Sharks following claims he injected NRL players with illegal drugs.

Dank has been cast as the chief scientific villain in the biggest doping investigation in the history of Australian sport.

The Daily Telegraph reports Dank’s lawyers, Cambridge Law, yesterday filed claims in the NSW Supreme Court against both Nine and NRL club.

Dank has denied any wrongdoing – including allegations he gave blood-thinning substance Warfarin to Cronulla players.

“I have done nothing illegal with any club in the NRL,” he previously told News Limited.

“All this (doping allegations) upsets me deeply because it is not true. I am not a doping scientist or a cheat.”

Last month he told ABC’s 7:30 that he was a scapegoat in the current scandal over drugs in sport.

Dank’s lawyers last month issued a statement announcing that he would launch a $10m defamation suit against various media outlets.

The  cases will come before the court on April 26.

Dank’s involvement with AFL club Essendon remains under ASADA investigation.