Beforehand banned for matchfixing, Russian participant Erkhan “gokushima” Bagynanov not too long ago had his sentence decreased following his help with different matchfixing instances.
The 25-year-old had impressed throughout his time with FORZE after signing for the crew in 2023, however was benched in March 2024 after ESIC introduced his ban.
gokushima’s ban decreased
gokushima had continued to play for FORZE up till his ban was introduced by the Esports Integrity Fee, along with his remaining match approaching the day of the announcement. Though the precise incidents have been by no means reported by ESIC, the articles of the Code of Conduct that have been breached have been confirmed:
2.1 Corruption:
2.1.1 Fixing or contriving in any approach or in any other case influencing improperly, or being a celebration to any effort to repair or contrive in any approach or in any other case affect improperly, the consequence, progress, conduct, or some other facet of any Match.
2.2 Betting:
2.2.1 Betting on any Match, together with matches that you simply have been an expert participant in throughout the ESL IEM occasions as detailed within the infringements above.
2.2.2 Facilitating, aiding, abetting or in any other case helping any get together in committing acts described in 2.2.1.
2.4.2 to 2.4.5 Failing to open up to the ESIC a full and true disclosure of all of the info and Web page 2 of two circumstances with respect to acts described in 2.1 and a couple of.2.
The ban was initially meant to final from March 27, 2024, to March 26, 2026, however in a assertion put out by ESIC, Gokushima’s ban was decreased for the reason that professional participant “supplied materials help to ESIC, together with data and corroboration that supported subsequent enforcement actions towards different members.”
gokushima’s help aided ESIC in issuing bans towards quite a few gamers, with Aleksandr “Ruler” Maximov, Dmitriy “propleh” Senigov, and Petr “timeagento” Markheev all receiving five-year bans. Egor “zLy” Polyakov additionally obtained a lifetime ban for his breaches of the Code of Conduct.
With gokushima’s ban now nullified, it’s at present unclear what his subsequent transfer can be. He’s nonetheless contracted to FORZE, however the Russian group now not has a crew in Counter-Strike 2. He’s the one participant who stays beneath contract.
