Snooker
player Stephen Lee has been banned for 12 years after being found guilty of
seven match-fixing charges.
Thirty-eight year old Lee, of
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was also asked to pay forty thousand pounds. The former world number five cannot play in
any game sanctioned by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
He denied the allegations, which
included a match at the World Snooker Championship in 2009, and intends to
appeal.
Snooker's
governing body says it is "the worst case of corruption" it has ever
seen, and the longest ban imposed on a player by the organisation.
The ban is calculated from 12 October 2012, when
an interim suspension was imposed, and means Lee will not be able to compete as
a professional snooker player before 12 October 2024, which incidentally is his
50th birthday.
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