Owen Gibson 

John Higgins match-fixing allegations – the Kiev tape

Excerpts from transcript from the hidden recording
  
  

John Higgins
Undercover reporters working for the News of the World offered snooker world champion John Higgins £261,000 to fix matches. Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

John Higgins [laughing]: "There is no cameras is there?"

Higgins: "Oh yeah. Frame three I'm going to lose. Yes, yes."

Higgins: "[There's] no risk, because you can miss."

Higgins: "If you start leaving, leaving and leaving chances people are saying, what's happening here? But against other players it's no problem."

Undercover reporter: "I don't know the sport that well, but what I'm saying is that you can miss one, but you can't keep missing them?"

Higgins: "You can. Yeah, yeah, you can.

Undercover reporter: "We agreed four frames during year one, right? We are agreeing the figure now. What is the figure we are agreeing?"

Pat Mooney: "300 ... agreed."

Higgins: "But then I am thinking to myself, how do I swallow 200,000 or 300,000 pounds or euros coming into my account?"

Higgins [to Mooney]: "I have got a property in Spain, I'm thinking to myself. Is there any way, if you got a small mortgage on the property or something and you can pay it off ... would they look me out if you paid it off in a lump sum?"

Undercover reporter: "So, four frames, one per?"

Higgins: "Yep"

 

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