Written by Richard Pagliaro | @Itenisi_Manje | Monday, May 20, 2024
The referee is the chairman Photo by Armando Belardi Repeated game-fixing violations cost him his job.
Venezuela’s chairman referee has been banned from playing tennis for life and fined $75,000 after being found guilty of 26 violations of the Anti-Corruption Program.
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Belardi’s ban takes effect on May 7, 2024, which was the date of the decision.
Due to a lifetime ban, Belardi cannot officiate or attend any tennis event “sanctioned or sanctioned by ITIA members (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national organization. ,” The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today.
Belardi, who was suspended for 30 months for failing to cooperate with the investigation, pleaded not guilty to the ITIA charges. By failing to respond to ITIA’s charges “Belardi effectively admitted liability for all charges and agreed to sanctions,” ITIA said.
The chair umpire was found guilty of “creating, soliciting, facilitating various tennis matches in 2019 and 2021.”
BeIardi was very dedicated to fixing the game, in one tournament in Peru where a player Belardi hired to fix the scores in the game forgot which points to fix, Belardi put in a referee to send signals to the player there. points to be corrected.
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