ITIA v. Agustín Moyano

Argentine player Agustín Moyano, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 1343 in September 2015, was one of six current and former players sanctioned by the ITIA on 31 January 2025 over conduct connected to a match-fixing syndicate run by Grigor Sargsyan, whose criminal prosecution in Belgium led to a five-year custodial sentence in 2023. Of the six, five admitted their breaches; Moyano alone denied the charges and required the ITIA to prove its case at a full hearing before independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer (AHO) Charles Hollander KC.

AHO Hollander ruled against Moyano, imposing a 15-year period of ineligibility — the longest sanction among the six players sanctioned that day, and markedly longer than the two-to-six-year bans given to the players who admitted their conduct or accepted agreed sanctions — together with a $10,000 fine. The suspension began 2 December 2024 and runs until 1 December 2039. Unlike the agreed-sanction cases elsewhere in this syndicate, a full reasoned decision exists because Moyano contested the charges rather than accepting a negotiated outcome.

The size of the gap between Moyano's sanction and those of the five admitting players is notable on its own terms: it illustrates the practical cost, within the ITIA's sanctioning framework, of contesting a case the AHO ultimately finds proven, set against the credit the TACP process extends to players who admit breaches and cooperate rather than requiring a full hearing.