2 October 2020

Six tennis players involved in fixed matches

Six international tennis players participated in suspected fixed matches at tournaments in Brazil and Egypt, according to documents released by Melbourne magistrates court to The Age. The players are Sweden’s Christian Lindell; Brazilians Thales Turini, Carlos Severino and Ciao Silva; Egyptian Issam Taweel; and France’s Maxence Broville. Taweel was sanctioned with a five year ban in August last year for attempting to fix a match, failing to report a corrupt approach and failing to disclose knowledge of the corrupt activity of another party. There is no suggestion that any of the other five were involved in fixing matches. 

The player names and fixed matches came to light during the recent trial of Harsimrat Singh and Rajesh Kumar, who in September were charged with attempting to fix matches from 2018. Singh pleaded guilty to placing bets using corrupt information and received a two year good behaviour bond but no conviction, reports The Age.

The court heard that Singh was operating in concert with his cousin, Ravinder Singh Dandiwal, it is understood. In July, Dandiwal was found to be behind a criminal match-fixing ring that staged a T-20 cricket competition at a village in India, which was then broadcast through social media as if it was being held in Sri Lanka. Indian police found that he had organised fraudulent tournaments for many years after forming an organisation called the Cricket Club of India (CCI) in 2009. It is understood that the CCI had a similar logo to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and organised tournaments with similar names.

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It is understood that Dandiwal was the owner of Ultimate Sports Management, which organised an Asian Premier League (APL) T-20 tournament in 2017. The tournament was flagged by the BCCI for match-fixing. It is understood that Victoria Police’s Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit and the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) are also investigating his activities.

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