Vienna  - Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was arrested Monday night following allegations by an Austrian triathlete that she had received illicit substances from him, the Kurier newspaper reported Tuesday.

Matschiner's arrest came after Lisa Huetthaler, the 2007 military triathlon world champion, told Kurier last week that he had supplied her with the blood booster EPO and the hormone testosterone.

The sports manager was arrested in the Upper Austria Province because there was a risk he might try to obfuscate his past actions and commit other crimes, the prosecution said in Vienna.

In the past, Matschiner was linked to a number of doping cases, without ever being directly accused.

He was the former manager of Bernhard Kohl, who was stripped of his second place in the 2008 Tour de France after it was found he had used the blood booster CERA. So far, Kohl has not named his suppliers. (dpa)