Spanish tennis player sanctioned for match-fixing
The sanction imposed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) on the Spanish tennis player Fernando Bogajo for activities related to match fixing has been confirmed. The Spanish tennis player who came to occupy the 901st place on the ATP Tour in 2018 has received a fine of 3,000 dollars in addition to a one-year and ten-month suspension. The player admitted the crime of attempted match-fixing in 2018.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency has just confirmed the sanction of Spanish tennis player Fernando Bogajo for match fixing in 2018. © Renith R/Unsplash
This weekend the Spanish tennis was in luck. After an incredible performance in front of the German tennis player Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz he won the maximum trophy at the Mutua Open in Madrid. Alcaraz, which has ceased to be a promise to have become a worthy heir of Rafa Nadal , has thus shown that he is in spectacular shape to face Roland Garros that begins this May 16.
Anyway, it's not all congratulations in Spanish tennis . This month it was confirmed that a tennis player unknown to the general public and who has never reached great rankings on the international circuit, Fernando Bogajo , admitted to being involved in match-fixing in 2018.
ITIA sanctions the Spaniard Fernando Bogajo
The sanction of ITIA, the International Tennis Integrity Agency, has been imposed without the need for confrontation once the Spanish tennis player has admitted his guilt. The final judgment of ITIA carries the suspension for 1 year and ten months in addition to a fine of $3,000 . Fernando Bogajo was provisionally suspended since December 2019. This means that the player will be able to rejoin the sporting activity immediately.
Fernando Bogajo has admitted to having accepted money in exchange for not winning a match in 2018 . The Spanish player would not have informed ITIA of the facts either. According to ITIA, this is a violation of the anti-corruption code in tennis , whose section D.1.f. he says that it will not be possible to "soliciting or accepting money, benefit or consideration with the intent of negatively influencing a player's best efforts at any event” .
The Code also establishes the obligation to inform the authority of any suspicious approach. Recall that according to the reports published by the International Association for Integrity in Betting (IBIA) tennis continues to produce the most sports betting fraud alerts . Tennis is counting in 2021 80 suspicious alerts .
Global Betting Market Research Service in New Zealand
In the context of monitoring gambling activity, the Global Betting Market Research Service (SIGMA) has been the mechanism put in place by the DGOJ to channel the fight against fraud and, in particular, against match-fixing in collaboration with the authorities competent.
Last March the Council of Ministers approved a draft law which modifies the regulation of gambling by strengthening the control mechanisms on sports manipulation and betting fraud. The amendment concerns a provision of SIGMA by which the following is established . The DGOJ
"it will restrict the rights of access, rectification, limitation, deletion, opposition and portability regarding the processing of data in the Service.”
The purpose of such a modification would be prevent hindering the investigations of the service . In this way, the entities participating in the service: State security forces and bodies, the Higher Sports Council, sports federations and professional leagues, and gaming operators with a DGOJ license, will have access only to the information that is relevant to their specific field of action.
