Bolivian tennis official suspended for 12 years for breaching anti-corruption guidelines
Percy Flores additionally fined $15,000 after 31 breaches of TACP
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) right now confirms that Bolivian tennis official Percy Flores has been suspended from the game for 12 years and issued a $15,000 tremendous for a number of breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).
Flores, a white badge umpire who didn’t contest the ITIA’s costs, was discovered to have dedicated 31 breaches of the TACP between November 2021 and October 2022. The breaches included routine manipulation of scores for betting functions – by purposely getting into the incorrect rating into the umpire’s handheld machine – at ITF World Tennis Tour occasions and soliciting one other official to interact in corrupt conduct.
Anti-Corruption Listening to Officer Professor Richard McLaren decided that Flores’ breaches of the TACP merited a sanction of 15 years in accordance with sanctioning tips, however utilized a discount of three years’ suspension because of mitigating circumstances – together with the umpire’s early admission of the costs and normal good conduct through the investigative course of.
The suspension was backdated to the beginning of Flores’ provisional suspension on 8 December 2022 and can finish on 7 December 2034. Throughout this time Flores is prohibited from officiating at or attending any tennis occasion authorised or sanctioned by the governing our bodies of tennis.
The ITIA is an unbiased physique established by the Worldwide Governing Our bodies of Tennis to advertise, encourage, improve and safeguard the integrity {of professional} tennis worldwide.
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Notes for editors:
Flores was discovered to have breached the next clauses of the 2021 and 2022 TACP (although the offenses occurred throughout two editions of the TACP, the wording of the clauses breached remained unchanged between 2021 and 2022):
10 counts D.1.b. No Lined Individual shall, immediately or not directly, facilitate, encourage and/or promote Tennis Betting (“Facilitation”).
9 counts D.1.m. No Lined Individual shall:
D.1.m.i. purposely delay or manipulate entry of rating(s) or scoring knowledge from any Occasion for any cause; or
D.1.m.ii. immediately or not directly, provide, present, or settle for any cash, profit or Consideration for the delay or manipulation of rating(s) or scoring knowledge from any Occasion.
D.2.b. Associated Individuals and Match Help Personnel.
10 counts D.2.b.i. Within the occasion any Associated Individual or Match Help Individual is approached by any one that requests the Associated Individual or Match Help Individual to (i) affect or try and affect the result of any side of any Occasion, or (ii) present Inside Info, it shall be the Associated Individual’s or Match Help Individual’s obligation to report such incident to the ITIA as quickly as doable, even when no cash, profit or Consideration is obtainable or mentioned.
One depend D.2.b.ii. Within the occasion any Associated Individual or Match Help Individual is aware of or suspects that any Lined Individual or different particular person has dedicated a Corruption Offense, it shall be the Associated Individual’s or Match Help Individual’s obligation to report such data or suspicion to the ITIA as quickly as doable.
One depend D.1.o. No Lined Individual shall, immediately or not directly, solicit, facilitate or incite some other individual to commit, try, agree or conspire to commit any Corruption Offense.
