The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has suspended Leny Mitjana for ten years and fined him $20,000.
This is because of Mitjana breaching the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) in eleven separate incidents.
The ITIA changed into participating with the Belgian Authorities as the 2 labored on cracking a match-solving syndicate in Belgium.
Once the trial changed into concluded, the selection changed into introduced for the chief of the syndicate, Grigor Sargsyan, who acquired a five-12 months custodial sentence.
As for Mitjana, he can be prohibited from gambling in, education at, or attending any tennis occasion accepted or sanctioned with the aid of using the participants of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, French Tennis Federation, Wimbledon and USTA) or another countrywide association.
This will begin from the date of the selection, which changed into 22 December 2023.
This is because of the truth that he breached sections D.1.b, D.1.d, D.1.e and D.2.a.i of the TACP.
These relate predominantly to match-solving–associated activities, which include influencing gamers now no longer to apply their quality efforts particularly suits, facilitating sports activities betting, controlling the final results of suits and now no longer reporting corrupt enterprises.
It’s believed that Mitjana dedicated those offences among 2017 and 2018, even though the precise info of which suits have now no longer but been released.
The courtroom docket listening to for Mitjana changed into hung on eight November 2023 with Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer, Phillipe Cavalieros.
Similarly, Slovenian tennis reliable Marko Ducman changed into additionally suspended for 10 years because of a couple of breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).