This took some months after the main problems started....Won the Tour de l'Avenir in 2014, yet only Astana wanted him (because the rest didn't trust him and obviously Astana is a team that doesn't care about such minor issues). When arriving in Europe, he was placed at the home of Spanish former rider Vicente Belda...who had been a known doper and as a team manager was involved in the Operacion Puerto case, plus who is seen as a big figure in a Spanish criminal investigation (with ties to medicine and doping distribution, surprisingly), with doctor Marco Maynar Mariño named as the main guy. Mariño, who Miguel Angel Lopez was was connected with several months ago (leading to Lopez even being in trouble with Spanish police for a bit).
In this time, Lopez used to train with Vicente's son David Belda. Well, until David got caught with EPO, that is. Luckily for him he managed to evade problems by riding for small and not so well controlled Team Medellin back home in Colomba before all this
But other than all that, super surprising!