Melbourne Demons sweat on tanking computer raid

MELBOURNE will take part in the national draft on Thursday still sweating about an unprecedented computer raid in search of tanking evidence.

MELBOURNE will take part in the national draft on Thursday still sweating about an unprecedented computer raid in search of tanking evidence.

The AFL has left nobody at the Demons in doubt of its intent as it searches through documents that could nail the club for not doing its best to win in the 2009 season.

The same group of IT forensic experts that raided the Crows after the Kurt Tippett revelations had in fact already been rifling through files at Melbourne.

After their work on with Tippett sifting through documents was completed, they again quietly returned to Melbourne.

It is believed their work is all but completed, but no end to the tanking investigation is in sight.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson last night confirmed a "document search" was ongoing.

The AFL Commission met yesterday, but Anderson said a resolution still could be some time away.

Melbourne is free to use all its picks in the draft even though the dark tanking cloud is still hovering.

They will be relieved to use the prize pick four and also snare father-son pick Jack Viney.

The Dees are expected to take Viney's good friend Ollie Wines with its first selection.

Adelaide, which is also free to take part in the draft, will face the AFL Commission on charges relating to Tippett on November 30.

The Commission yesterday decided on the date.