The game of snooker is facing one of the main challenges to its standing following allegation of match-fixing connecting current world figure one John Higgins, who has been balanced from captivating part in all future snooker tournament pending an immediate query.In what might turn out to be one of the main controversies connecting the sport, Higgins has been balanced from all future snooker tournament after newspaper information over the weekend supposed he had agreed to take a inducement of about £260,000 to lose four specific frame at a gathering in Kiev, Ukraine.The UK’s News of the World paper released a video this weekend of Higgins and boss Pat Mooney meeting an in secret reporter in Kiev and approving to alter the result of frames in go back for cash.Higgins however maintain his virtue. “My conscience is 100% clear,” he supposed in a declaration. “In my 18 years of live expert snooker I have never deliberately miss a shot, never mind deliberately lost a border or a match.”In their defence, Higgins’ boss Pat Mooney, also a board associate of the World specialized Billiards and Snooker friendship, claimed they were in “authentic fear” of their security and became anxious at the way the chat was developing in Kiev, with Higgins addition that he feared the Russian Mafia could have been concerned in the inducement and only play along in order to be clever to leave the hotel and come back home.

In a report released Sunday, the News of the World supposed it was “astounded” at Pat Mooney’s commentary that he felt frightened whilst in Kiev known his “relaxed way and eagerness all through his stay.”The broadsheet said that Mooney also had three preceding meeting during recent months with its investigation editor at bars and restaurant of his choose in Edinburgh where he openly discuss John Higgins and match-fixing. The paper said that in a figure of conversation, Mooney explain how a snooker pastime could be fixed, the quantity of cash necessary to facilitate it and repeatedly certain the newspaper that Higgins would be “tranquil” with the agreement.next the allegation, Mooney resigned from the World expert Billiards and Snooker friendship Board with instant effect and has be told that his prospect in snooker is over.The WPBSA has launch an instant enquiry into the allegation headed by David Douglas, former police officer Chief manager of the Metropolitan law enforcement repair, who was bring in only last month to help uphold the integrity of the diversion of snooker. Douglas will first get together with the NOTW paper to investigate their proof. The paper also claims that it will be publish additional revelations next Sunday.The WPBSA said that the substance had bring the very fabric of the pastime into query and the strongest probable message needs to be send out that this behaviour has no partition to play in the sport and will not be tolerate, with any illegal behavior to be harshly dealt with.present world figure one Higgins was award an MBE in 2008 and won the Snooker World finals last year for the third occasion. This year but he lost out to experienced person Steve Davis in the next round in one of the shock of the contest, which was later won by Australian Neil Robertson.

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