National-level Italian tennis chair umpire and line judge Lorenzo Chiurazzi has been banned from the sport for seven and a half years, as confirmed in a statement by The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).
Additionally, the ITIA issued Chiurazzi with a fine of $50,000, of which $33,500 has been suspended.
Chiurazzi was alleged to have committed a range of rule breaches at a 2021 tournament in Perugia. Infringements committed included the delaying of score inputting, deliberately inputting the wrong scores, failing to co-operate with the subsequent investigation and failing to report corruption.
He was found guilty of several charges, breaching several rules of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, including: Section D.1.b which stipulates gambling offences, Section D.1.m which covers deliberate misrepresentation of scores and Section D.1.d which deals with direct and indirect contrivance of event outcomes.