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Threats, bets and guilty WhatsApps: Inside snooker’s Chinese match-fixing scandal – and how they got caught

SNOOKER: Three years on from the news that rocked the snooker world, Lawrence Ostlere tells the story of the ringleaders behind an unprecedented scandal that saw 10 Chinese players banned from the game

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Who is Zhao Xintong? The Chinese ‘amateur’ who won the World Snooker Championship after ban

Zhao beat Mark Williams in the Crucible final after returning from a suspension following a match-fixing scandal

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Zhao Xintong to make professional snooker return after Chinese match-fixing scandal

Zhao Xintong is set to play his first professional snooker event since returning from his match-fixing ban by competing at this month’s UK Championship.

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Rory McIlroy has been betrayed by PGA Tour and their grim LIV Golf merger

ANDY DUNN COLUMN: The PGA Tour's decision to merge with LIV Golf and accept the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund's money is a grim betrayal

Daily Mirror

World Snooker chairman Steve Dawson: We will continue to stamp out corruption

Liang Wenbo and Li Hang have been banned from snooker for life

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Snooker star insists he didn't have "a sniff" of match-fixing after corrupt 5-0 win

Robert Milkins has opened up after his European masters qualifier win last July was corrupt following an investigation that saw 10 Chinese players banned

Daily Mirror

World Snooker issues lifetime and lengthy bans following match fixing scandal

No fewer than ten players have received bans for their part in fixing professional Snooker matches.

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Snooker rocked by shocking match-fixing scandal as 10 stars banned including two for life

Liang Wenbo, Li Hang, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong, Lu Ning, Zhao Jianbo, Chang Bingyu, Bai Langning, Chen Zifan and Zhang Jiankang have all been handed suspensions following the investigation

Daily Mirror

Chinese snooker star Liang Wenbo banned for life for fixing matches and covering up trail

The most high-profile players involved in the scandal were the 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao and the 2021 UK Championship winner Zhao Xintong

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Liang Wenbo and Li Hang banned from snooker for life over match-fixing

Eight other Chinese players have also been hit with suspensions of varying lengths.

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What is snooker’s Chinese betting scandal?

An independent disciplinary hearing is set to begin in the second week of the World Championship

The Independent UK

Big bans may be handed out – snooker’s largest match-fixing inquiry set to start

The independent disciplinary hearing, chaired by Ian Mill KC, is expected to last around two weeks.

The Independent UK

What is snooker’s Chinese betting scandal?

An independent disciplinary hearing is set to begin in the second week of the World Championship

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Young snooker stars 'receive threats to family members' to deliberately lose matches

Ten Chinese snooker players are embroiled in a corruption probe that has rocked the sport and youngsters are now said to have been targeted with threats to fix matches

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Chinese players’ match-fixing charges ‘heartbreaking’, snooker boss says

All 10 players currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour have been deemed to have cases to answer

The Independent UK

Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao among six players charged with match-fixing

All 10 Chinese players currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour have been deemed to have cases to answer.

Daily Record

Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao among TEN Chinese snooker players charged with match fixing

Bingtao is one of 10 snooker players from China suspended pending investigation from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.

Daily Mirror

Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong among 10 players charged in snooker match-fixing probe

All 10 players currently suspended by the WPBSA have been charged, six of those with match-fixing, including former Masters champion Yan Bingtao

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Daily Mirror

Judd Trump speculates Yan Bingtao may have been 'forced to do it' amid match-fixing probe

Yan Bingtao was pulled out of his English Open first round match on Monday and is one of seven Chinese players suspended while allegations of match-fixing are being investigated

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Snooker body suspends six Chinese players as match-fixing investigation continues

Snooker's governing body suspends six Chinese players over allegations of "manipulating" professional matches for betting.

Daily Mirror

Five Chinese snooker players banned amid ongoing investigation into match-fixing

The sport has been plunged into chaos with chiefs suspending five players from the World Snooker Tour amid the biggest match-fixing probe in the history of the game

Daily Mirror

Liang Wenbo banned from all snooker competitions amid probe into misconduct allegations

Former English Open winner Wenbo, 35, has already served a ban this year following a conviction for a domestic related assault after an incident in Sheffield City Centre

Daily Mirror

Snooker star Liang Wenbo banned after conviction for domestic-related assault

Two-time World Cup winner Liang Wenbo has been handed a four-month suspension by snooker's authorities after he was convicted of a domestic-related assault in April

Daily Mirror

Liang Wenbo suspended from World Snooker Tour after admitting to assaulting woman in Yorkshire

Chinese player Liang Wenbo has been suspended from the World Snooker Tour with immediate effect following his conviction for assaulting a woman in Sheffield last July

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Liang Wenbo suspended from World Snooker Tour while misconduct probe ongoing

Liang was fined and given a 12-month community order at Sheffield Magistrates on Friday for what the CPS called a ‘domestic-related assault’

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