Former WBA champion Felix Sturm of Germany was arrested in Cologne, according to Bild. It is reported that a 40-year-old athlete was arrested at a fitness fair. According to the source, Sturm is accused of tax evasion. It is also noted that the athlete recently lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was unavailable to the German police.
Sturm won the WBA title in March 2006, defeating the Samoan Marcelo Maso. On February 20, 2016, Sturm met the Russian Fedor Chudinov in the battle for the WBA title and won by split decision. After the fight, an anabolic steroid stanozolol was found in the German doping test, and as a result, he was stripped of the title.
