Close Tyson Fury could face eight-year ban from boxing if new doping offence is proven
The drawn-out case left UKAD fearing it could be made insolvent due to the escalating cost.
Preston farmer Martin Carefoot has now claimed to have been offered £25,000 to take responsibility for selling ‘Team Fury’ the meat, with UKAD now set to investigate the allegation.
And should the WBC title holder be found guilty of tampering with the initial investigation, it would count as a second offence and could therefore result in an eight-year ban from the sport.
Carefoot told the Mail on Sunday: “I have never kept wild boar. I just went along with it, and they dangled this carrot I was going to get paid.”
But promoter Frank Warren, who did not represent Fury at the time, told The Sun in response: “This man wrote me a letter last October, full of errors, asking for money.
“Tyson has never ever met this man and his story is total bulls***.”
While WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman also sided with Fury when responding to The Sun: “Personally, I prefer to believe Tyson Fury ahead of someone who has already admitted to lying in legal documents for financial gain
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