LONDON, August 22, 2025 (ITIA Press Release)
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) today confirms that five individuals have been sanctioned for breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).
Italian national-level official Francesco Totaro has been issued a lifetime ban from the sport and fined $15,000 after being found liable for nine breaches of the TACP between 2019 and 2023, including manipulating entry of scoring data for betting purposes, facilitating betting, betting on tennis, failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation, and misrepresentation.
Totaro did not contest the charges, but requested that an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer (AHO) determine the appropriate sanction, which was issued on 11 August 2025 by AHO The Honourable Jack Forrest KC.
Murod Abdurakhimov, a national-level official from Uzbekistan, has been issued a 20-year suspension and fined $30,000 after being found liable for breaches of the TACP during seven separate tennis matches between 2019 and 2021.
Abdurakhimov initially contested the charges and requested a hearing before an independent AHO, before ceasing to engage in the process and failing to attend a hearing scheduled for January 2025. AHO Janie Soublière ruled on the case, finding Abdurakhimov liable for 18 major offenses under the TACP, including facilitating betting, manipulating entry of scoring data for betting purposes, and conspiring to commit corruption offenses.
Abdurakhimov’s period of ineligibility began on 7 August 2025, the date of the written decision, and will end on 6 August 2045.
32-year-old tennis player Artsiom Dabryian, from Poland, has been suspended for three years and fined $4,500 after being found liable for breaches of the TACP in 2023 and 2024, including facilitating betting, contriving the outcome of an event, and failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation.
AHO Soublière ruled on the case, upholding all ITIA charges after Dabryian, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 974 in June 2017, failed to respond to ITIA charges or engage with further correspondence.
Dabryian’s period of ineligibility began on 6 August 2025, the date of the written decision, and will end on 5 August 2028.
23-year-old Imran Sibille, a tennis player from Morocco who served a one-month TADP suspension earlier in 2025, has accepted a one-year suspension and a fine of $10,000 (of which $7,500 is suspended) after match alerts prompted an ITIA investigation into potential corruption. Sibille, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 1433 in January 2024, admitted to fixing one match and failing to report a further corrupt approach in 2022.
Sibille’s suspension entered into effect on 21 July 2025 and will end on 20 July 2026.
26-year-old tennis player Luc Fomba, from France, has been suspended for a period of two months and fined $5,000 (of which $2,500 is suspended) after being found liable for two breaches of the TACP in 2022 and 2023. Fomba failed to report knowledge or suspicion that another player fixed a tennis match in 2022, and failed to report a corrupt approach from that same individual in 2023.
Fomba, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 967 in November 2024, did not contest the charges, but requested that an independent AHO determine the appropriate sanction, which was issued by AHO Amani Khalifa.
Fomba’s period of ineligibility began on 15 August 2025, the date of the written decision, and will end on 14 October 2025.
During their periods of ineligibility, Totaro, Abdurakhimov, Dabryian, Sibille and Fomba are prohibited from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national association.
