BREAKING: Lucas Paqueta issues statement on gambling probe amid 'misleading' leaks

West Ham and Brazil midfielder Lucas Paqueta remains astatine the bosom of an FA probe into imaginable betting breaches but helium has present deed retired astatine reports successful the media astir the process

Lucas Paqueta has slammed "entirely false" claims surrounding his ongoing alleged betting breaches probe.

Reports precocious claimed that the West Ham prima had been summoned to a proceeding aboriginal this period relating to the allegations. And helium has present shared a furious connection connected societal media responding.

He wrote: "I americium frustrated and upset to person work caller misleading and inaccurate property articles, published successful some England and Brazil, claiming to disclose accusation astir my case. Some of that accusation is wholly mendacious and appears designed to undermine my position. I americium besides acrophobic that, though they are mendacious and misteading, these articles are intelligibly sourced from an idiosyncratic adjacent to the case.

" The FA proceedings are expected to beryllium confidential, and they are highly superior for maine and my family. The continued leaking and work of inaccurate accusation successful the property is present putting astatine hazard my accidental of receiving just hearing, I have, therefore, instructed my lawyers to constitute to The FA to petition that they behaviour a thorough probe into however accusation astir the case, adjacent if inaccurate, is uncovering its mode into the nationalist domain. I proceed to contradict the charges against maine and look guardant to demonstrating my innocence.“

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