The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) introduced the suspension of seven Belgian tennis gamers implicated in a match-fixing ring within the nation.
The sanctions are associated to a lately concluded felony case involving a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium.
Cooperation between the ITIA and the Belgian authorities resulted in a five-year jail sentence for the syndicate’s chief, Grigor Sargsyan.
The seven gamers are Arnaud Graisse, Arthur de Greef, Julien Dubail, Romain Barbosa, Maxime Authom, Omar Salman and Alec Witmeur, who had been convicted within the felony court docket and have subsequently obtained sanctions from the ITIA.
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Punishments for the gamers
The punishments vary from two to 4 years. Three gamers, Witmeur, De Greef and Barbosa, have been provisionally suspended since Might 2021, after they had been formally charged within the felony proceedings in Belgium, as they had been lively gamers on the time.
Time served underneath provisional suspension can be credited in opposition to these gamers’ durations of ineligibility.
Witmeur admitted six TACP – violations: betting, match-fixing, inside info, and wildcards – violations, whereas de Greef and Barbosa admitted 9 violations.
Throughout their suspensions, gamers are prohibited from taking part in, coaching or attending any tennis occasion licensed or sanctioned by ITIA members: ATP, ITF, WTA, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open, or any Nationwide Affiliation.
