INTERPOL: Integrity in sport - bi-weekly bulletin

An investigation into possible corruption during the Olympic boxing competition at Rio 2016 is to be led by Professor Richard McLaren, the man who uncovered the full extent of Russian state-sponsored doping. McLaren, who found that more than a thousand Russian athletes in 30 sports had been part of a sophisticated doping programme, has now been tasked with investigating potential judging and refereeing irregularities in Rio by the International Boxing Association (Aiba).

ICC v Heath Streak: A Landmark Eight Year Ban For Corrupt Conduct

Published Wednesday, 16 June 2021.

Prioritising Consistency & Compliance: A Review Of Australia's National Integrity Framework For Sport

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Published Thursday, 10 June 2021.

Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova arrested at French Open as part of match-fixing investigation

Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova has been arrested at Roland Garros as part of an investigation into match-fixing at last years French Open.

An investigation was launched in October 2020 following last years delayed tournament after suspicions were raised revolving around organised fraud and sports corruption. The suspicion was first raised when Sizikova and partner Madison Brengle lost to Romanian duo Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tigin in the first round of the tournament. Betting companies noticed that hundreds of thousands of euros had been bet on a break of serve in the second set.

INTERPOL: Integrity in Sport - Bi-weekly bulletin

INVESTIGATIONS

National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF)

Suspicion of a match-fixing around PSG-Red Star Belgrade: the investigation closed

The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has closed its preliminary investigation into suspicions of rigging of the Champions League match between Paris-SG and the Red Star of Belgrade in October 2018, said Thursday the lawyer of the Serbian club, confirming information from the Team.

ICC's Excluded Persons Policy: Checkmate To Manipulation In Cricket?

Published Tuesday, 04 May 2021.

Sports Integrity (Betting And Financial Corruption) – The Year In Review 2020/21

Published Thursday, 29 April 2021.

Team Owners In Crossfire Over Cricket's Anti-Corruption Rules: ICC v Deepak Agarwal

Published Wednesday, 07 April 2021.

Sports: Law & Practice - Q&A with Adam Lewis QC & Jonathan Taylor QC, also featuring a conversation with Lord Sebastian Coe

Title image: Q&A with Adam Lewis QC & Jonathan Taylor QC, also featuring a conversation with Lord Sebastian Coe

Betting On Inside Information In Football: Lessons from the Trippier and Sturridge cases

Published Thursday, 04 February 2021.

Regulating Against Competition Manipulation In Sport

Published Tuesday, 12 January 2021.

When football administrators end up in prison - the ongoing case of Racing de Santander’s former managers

Published Wednesday, 16 December 2020.

Cheating in esports: a review of ESIC’s "coach spectator bug" decision

Published Tuesday, 22 September 2020.

Online video gaming: another front in the war against money laundering

Published Friday, 31 July 2020.

Cheating in esports: a review of the “emilshe1n” decision and the role of ESIC in esports regulation

Published Thursday, 21 May 2020.

Hedging your bets: how to regulate Brazil’s multi-billion-dollar sports betting market

Published Friday, 28 February 2020.

New York appellate court rules fantasy sports is illegal gambling

Published Thursday, 13 February 2020.

Sports law in 2020 - key issues to watch in Central & South America

Published Monday, 30 December 2019.

Sports law in 2020 - key issues to watch in Europe

Published Monday, 30 December 2019.

Sports law in 2020 - key issues to watch in UK & Ireland

Published Sunday, 29 December 2019.

Key sports law cases and developments of 2019 – Africa & Middle East

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Published Saturday, 21 December 2019.

Key sports law cases and developments of 2019 – Central & South America

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Published Saturday, 21 December 2019.

Key sports law cases and developments of 2019 - UK & Ireland

Published Monday, 16 December 2019.

Data, integrity and controlling risks in sport - Jake Marsh & Jonny Gray - Episode 85

Fighting Fraud And Match Fixing In Esports - ESIC Refer Team Akuma Case To Valve

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Published Friday, 18 June 2021.

Appeal outcome: Independent Appeal panel in the matter of Anton Georgiev

On 4 September 2020, the Esports Integrity Commission (hereinafter referred as to “ESIC”) announced an investigation into an abuse of a bug (hereinafter referred as to the “Spectator Bug”) in the CS:GO’s spectator mode. ESIC together with Mr. Michal Slowinski’s help investigated about the wrongful use of said exploit.

Along with the Statement “Esports Integrity Commission Opens Inquiry into Historical Spectator Bug Exploitation’ a Confession Period was granted. This period was foreseen for any offending parties that wanted to come forward ahead of the investigation with an admission of wrongdoing. Said Period opened as of the date of the Statement’s release, 4th of September 2020, and closed on the 13th of September 2020 at 23:00 CET.

ESIC REFERS EVIDENCE RELATING TO POTENTIAL MATCH-FIXING AND BETTING FRAUD IN RMR EVENT TO VALVE

EPIC’s CIS RMR event has been the subject of public controversy for various reasons. As EPIC is not a member of ESIC, ESIC has not taken steps to investigate the extent of integrity threats in the event. However, on 9 June 2021, ESIC has made a referral to Valve including substantial evidence indicating the existence of potential betting fraud perpetrated by individuals participating or associated with those who were participating in the CIS RMR event run by EPIC.

ESIC has received evidence via its global Suspicious Betting Alert Network (SBAN) that the CEO of Project X, the team from which the Akuma roster emerged, Oleksandr Shyshko, has an active CSGO betting account and has placed numerous bets on highly suspicious Project X matches (when most of the current Akuma roster were playing as Project X) and, crucially, made accurate pre-match bets on the outcome of the Virtus Pro v Akuma match in the CIS RMR, the conduct of which match is subject to the current public cheating allegations against Akuma.

Three Belgian Tennis players provisionally suspended

Three Belgian tennis players Romain Barbosa, Arthur de Greef and Alex Witmeur who are the subject of an ongoing criminal and ITIA investigation, have today been provisionally suspended by AHO Professor Richard McLaren.