Tyson Fury facing an EIGHT-YEAR BAN from boxing if he is found guilty by doping officials of tampering with evidence after shock claims from a farmer who says he was offered £25k to lie in UKAD statements about supplying contaminated boar meat
UK Anti-Doping will investigate Tyson Fury and his cousin Hughie Fury after explosive allegations that a member of their team offered a farmer £25,000 to lie about how they each failed a drugs test in 2015.
While the national doping watchdog is remaining tight-lipped, Sportsmail understands they are set to act on the extraordinary new information brought to light by the Mail on Sunday.
If the Furys are found guilty of a potential new charge of tampering with the initial investigation – which led to backdated two-year bans for the Furys in 2017 for their nandrolone positives – then they would each be facing possible eight-year suspensions for a second offence.
It comes after the startling claims of Lancashire farmer Martin Carefoot, who says he lied when he submitted two written statements to the Furys’ legal team in 2017 to say he had supplied the fighters with uncastrated wild boar. The defence blamed the presence of nadrolone metabolites on the ‘ingestion of offal of uncastrated wild boar or pig, or alternatively from contaminated supplements’.
Carefoot has heaped huge uncertainty over the fighters by retracting the contents of his statements, copies of which have seen by Sportsmail. They are marked ‘before the National Anti-Doping Panel between UK Anti-Doping v Tyson Luke Fury and Hughie Lewis Fury’, and their possible use in the Furys’ defence will be of particular relevance to any new UKAD inquiry.
The Furys have not yet addressed the allegations, which include a claim from Carefoot that he was promised £25,000 from a member of their entourage, via a friend, for his complicity. The identity of the entourage member is known to Sportsmail.
Fury posted a cryptic social media message in which he and an acquaintance were dressed as Batman and Robin, with the words: ‘We was doing a half marathon today but got cancel for ovs [sic] reasons, but we gonna do a half marathon at home, Batman & robin. @kristianblacklock @toprank @wbcboxing @mtkglobal @frank_warren_official don’t fear we coming…
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