The accusation was made by the International Doping Test Agency (ITA), Offsideplus.az reports. The 28-year-old athlete was disqualified during the investigation.

Rahimov left the Azerbaijani national team in 2014 and became a citizen of Kazakhstan. He became the world champion the following year and the winner of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.

It should be noted that Nijat Rahimov was disqualified for 2 years in 2013 when he was in the national team of Azerbaijan for finding steroids in his body.