This week the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced that they've banned French tennis players Mick Lescure and Jules Okala for life for multiple match-fixing incidents spanning the past decade.
The two players were found to have coordinated multiple match-fixing incidents going back to 2014. Okala was found to have conspired to fix seven matches. His highest ATP ranking was 338, and he was still active into this year, with his most recent ranking being 491. Lescure was found to have fixed eight matches. He had a high ATP ranking of 487 and was still active at the time of his ban with a rank of 1,151.
Both players are banned for life from attending any sanctioned tennis matches. Okala was fined $15,000 USD, and Lescure was fined $40,000 for the match-fixing.
Each player is currently being investigated by law enforcement in the countries of France and Belgium and could face criminal charges for corruption.
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That's a pretty large number of events to fix. I would reckon it'd be something you'd try to really spread out as to not make it suspicious.