Mark King hit with five-year ban from snooker and heavy fine for match fixing
- Player guilty of providing inside information on match
- Other charges relating to separate incident dismissed
Mark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match-fixing.
An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match-fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous month’s Welsh Open.
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