THE AFL has confirmed Gold Coast was investigated and cleared of any wrongdoing during sports scientist Stephen Dank's brief tenure at the club in 2010. 

Dank was found guilty on Friday of 10 breaches of the AFL Anti-Doping Code during his employment with Gold Coast, Essendon and his involvement with a support staff member at Carlton. 

In its findings, the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal was satisfied Dank attempted to supply the CJC-1295 peptide to a Gold Coast support staffer.  

While Essendon's case involving 34 past and present players was dragged out over more than two years – after which they were found not guilty by the Tribunal – the Suns largely escaped the spotlight. 

However, AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said Dank's time at the Suns was thoroughly investigated.

"Their computer records were seized and analysed and there was found to be no evidence of governance issues, no systematic program," Evans told Melbourne radio station SEN.

"They had an employee (Dank) who was part-time. They found out that employee had given some treatment to one player outside of the club and they moved him on.

"We certainly would regard it as a very different case, but people need to be aware absolutely it was investigated."

Gold Coast football manager Marcus Ashcroft told SEN that Dank was a part-time employee who worked two days a week for no more than three months late in 2010. 

"The time he was here, I can categorically say there was no supplement program issued by Stephen Dank," Ashcroft said. 

"We complied with an AFL investigation at the time, with records we had to supply through email and other correspondence was given to the AFL and we satisfied all those requirements. 

"We were quite comfortable with the structure and hierarchy we had set up that Stephen Dank had no way of being able to implement what he wanted to implement. 

"There was no supplement program done while he was here."