Lucas Paqueta’s uncle facing SIX YEARS in jail if found guilty of match-fixing – as West Ham star awaits FA hearing

LUCAS PAQUETA's uncle is facing up to six years successful situation successful Brazil if recovered blameworthy of alleged match-fixing.

A Senate Commission study released connected Tuesday calls for transgression charges against Bruno Tolentino, the West Ham star's uncle, and 2 Brazilian businessmen.

Paqueta gave grounds to the investigation, led by the Senate's Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI), but is not facing immoderate further action.

The 27-year-old has been charged with 4 counts of spot-fixing by the FA however, with the disciplinary proceeding to instrumentality spot adjacent month.

The Brazil lawsuit centres connected allegations that Paqueta's uncle paid different Brazilian player, Luiz Henrique, for receiving yellowish cards successful 2 LaLiga games successful January and February 2023.

Two payments of implicit £5000, were made aft Henrique had been booked successful 2 matches whilst playing Real Betis, which sparked an integrity probe.

The Henrique and Paqueta cases are linked arsenic the suspicious betting patterns surrounding the bookings were some initially reported by online gambling institution Betway, West Ham's garment sponsor.

The CPI study concludes that Tolentino made the suspicious payments to Henrique "for his information successful manipulations."

The proposal to complaint is based connected Article 199 of Brazil's General Sports Law for "giving oregon promising a fiscal oregon non-financial vantage with the intent of altering oregon falsifying the effect of a sports contention oregon lawsuit associated with it".

The recommended punishment is 2 to six years successful situation and a fine.

In different nexus to the English case, galore of the suspicious bets connected the four Paqueta bookings that led to him being charged are believed to person been placed by members of his family.

As SunSport revealed past June, the FA are pushing for Paqueta to beryllium given a LIFE prohibition from football.

Paqueta insists helium is innocent, but the FA complaint expanse includes a proposal that helium beryllium banned for beingness if recovered guilty.

Paqueta is accused of deliberately getting booked successful 4 Prem games — against Leicester successful 2022, positive Aston Villa, Leeds United and Bournemouth, each successful 2023 — to marque wealth for friends.

Around 60 radical placed bets connected Paqueta to beryllium booked successful 1 oregon each of those matches.

The stakes ranged from conscionable £7 to £400, starring to combined winnings of £100,000.