West Ham's Lucas Paqueta star was wiped out the charges of arranging scores and escaped from a lifetime ban.
Paqueta said in a statement made by West Ham: “From the first day of the investigation, I still asserted myself innocent at these extremely serious allegations. I couldn't say anything more at this time, but I wanted to express my gratitude and want to return to playing football with smiles on my lips.”
“To my wife, who has never let go of my hand, to West Ham, to the fans who always cheered me, and to family, friends and legal team for supporting me – Thank you for all,” the 27 -year -old Brazilian star added.
The British Football Federation (FA) confirmed that an independent management committee discovered that the allegations of arranging the score for Paqueta were unfounded. But the committee discovered that the Brazilian player violated the two terms of the F3 rule of the FA, when he did not answer the questions and did not provide information for the investigation.
Paqueta may be fined for those criminal acts, but has now escaped more serious allegations that can lead to a long -term ban or even the end of his career. The 27 -year -old midfielder always denies all wrongdoing and is said to have had mental health problems throughout this long story.
Earlier, the FA launched the investigation in August 2023, causing the dream of transfer worth £ 85 million of Paqueta to Man City to smoke. In May 2024, Paqueta was forced to arrange the score. The investigators accused him of deliberately receiving a yellow card in matches with Leicester in November 2022, Aston Villa in March 2023, Leeds in May 2023 and Bournemouth in August 2024 to help others win that he would be fined a gold card.
The Governmental Club West Ham in the homepage said: “West Ham can confirm that the independent management committee has deleted the crime of Lucas Paqueta, about the wrongdoing of the football association for him for alleging the violation of the FA's E5 rules.
