12/01/2024 17:07hs.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced an exemplary suspension ten years and a fine of $20,000 for participating in match-fixing against a player.
It’s about French Leny Mitjana, about whom the ITIA added that he committed eleven violations of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) as a member of an organization dedicated to adulterating meetings in Belgium that he led Grigor Sargsyansentenced to five years in prison.
average, who ranked 458th in the men’s singles ranking, the highest of his career in 2018denied all charges related to match-fixing in 2017 and 2018. However, the Frenchman was found guilty “of facilitating betting, engineering the outcome of matches and influencing other players, failing to exert effort in matches and failing to report corrupt approaches”.
The ITIA goes after the corrupt.
The suspension will extend from the date of the decision (December 22, 2023) until midnight on December 21, 2033. During the sanction period the player is prohibited from playing, training or attending to any member-sanctioned or sanctioned tennis event. from the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, French Tennis Federation, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national association.
Betting: who is the Master?
Mitjana’s case, and most on the subject of gambling, end up leading to a man: Grigor Sargsyan, Armenian by birth, immigrant living in Belgiumtoday behind bars.
Grigor Sargsyan, the Master.
Nicknamed the Master, he planned the largest illegal betting network in tennis. At the time, he said he was “proud” to have corrupted more than 180 players and pay them to lose hundreds of games.
For several years, Sargsyan, with no tennis background, turned savings of $350 into $50 million. He supposedly considered himself the Robin Hood of the sport after building a network of players around the world (believed to include some based in the United States) and convincing them to fix matches.
In June 2018, he was jailed for five years in Belgium after a SWAT team arrested him at his parents’ home following an extensive investigation. It was 3 in the morning and Sargsyan was fixing matches at the W25 tournament in Hua Hin, Thailand.
2024-01-12 20:07:34
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