Romania’s Luncanu gets five-year ban for match fixing

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Romanian tennis player Petru-Alexandru Luncanu, 34, has been banned for five years and fined $40,000 in a match fixing case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday.

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Five out of seven match-fixing charges brought by the ITIA against Luncanu were upheld at an anti-corruption hearing, the agency said, relating to "contriving the outcome or any other aspect of several matches, and directly or indirectly facilitating tennis wagering."

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