{"id":5654,"date":"2025-04-30T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:04:08","slug":"andy-jenkins-receives-11-year-ban-for-match-fixing-and-betting-violations-in-professional-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"Andy Jenkins receives 11-year ban for match-fixing and betting violations in professional darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Veteran darts player Andy Jenkins has been banned for 11 years and fined over \u00a317,000 after being found guilty of match-fixing. A disciplinary panel from the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) ruled that Jenkins manipulated the outcome of 12 matches between February 2022 and July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Though Jenkins, 54, denied the match-fixing charges, he admitted to placing 88 bets on darts matches between March 2022 and May 2023\u2014violating strict rules against player betting. The DRA issued an additional 12-month suspension for those offenses, which will run concurrently with the main ban.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, backdated to November 2023, prohibits Jenkins from participating in any DRA-sanctioned events until November 15, 2034.<\/p>\n<p>John Pierce, director of enforcement at the Gambling Commission, emphasized the importance of maintaining integrity in sport. \u201cThis case sends a strong and unequivocal message to all sportspeople: if you fix matches, you are likely to be caught and face serious consequences,\u201d he said. He added that betting markets must remain \u201cfair and free from corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins is best known for reaching the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2007, where he lost to eventual champion Raymond van Barneveld. Over his career, he has claimed 15 titles.<\/p>\n<p>The ban marks a dramatic fall from grace for a player once considered among the sport\u2019s elite.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran darts player Andy Jenkins has been banned for 11 years and fined over \u00a317,000 after being found guilty of match-fixing. A disciplinary panel from the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) ruled that Jenkins manipulated the outcome of 12 matches between February 2022 and July 2023. Though Jenkins, 54, denied the match-fixing charges, he admitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}