A TENNIS player has been banned from the sport for 12 YEARS after breaking anti-corruption rules.
Thai Natthasith Kunsuwan, 24, is one of four players to have been punished by The International Tennis Integrity Agency.
Kunsuwan admitted to 39 breaches of anti-corruption breaches.
This included contriving the outcome of events, accepting money to contrive the outcome of events and failure to report corrupt approaches.
He accepted an agreed sanction, including a £55,000 fine, with £41,000 of it being suspended.
He fully cooperated with the investigation, but will not be able to return to tennis until 2036.
Three other players have been suspended for alleged breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.
Frenchman Jaimee Floyd Angele has been suspended for five years and three months.
He has admitted to contriving one match in exchange for payment in 2022.
The 25-year-old failed to cooperate with an ITIA investigation and also destroyed evidence.
Angele accepted the sanction and a fine of £14,900, half of which is suspended.
He will not be able to return to the court until 2029.
A third player, Christian Lindell has been suspended for seven years.
The ITIA found the Swede to have committed four breaches of the TACP, relating to one fixed match, and has been fined £7,450.
His ban expires in 2032.
Finally, Frenchman Samuel Bensoussan has been suspended for one year and 11 months.
He was found to have fixed four matches and fined £8,940.
He will be able to play again in 2027.
The suspensions mean all four players will be banned from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authourised or sanctioned by members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Federation Francaise de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national assocation.
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