In early January 2008, although initially acquitted by the Royal Spanish Football Federation's Competition Committee and Appeal Committee, he received a two-year ban for having tested positive for Finasteride in the previous year, whilst a Ciudad Murcia player.
Kuqo was suspended for a period of 6 months after failing a doping test at EuroBasket 2005 due to a dubious doping violation, after taking a doctor-prescribed medicine Propecia that contains Finasteride to prevent hair loss.
His time there was tainted when in January 2007, Lazaridis returned a positive drug test for anti-androgen Finasteride, a prescription alopecia medication, which was banned at the time.