According to reports by German ZDF, Aslan Karatsev and his colleague, Nikoloz Basilashvili might be involved in a match-fixing.
The connection between the players should be a person that coached them both, Yahor Yatsik. According to the coach who spoke to ZDF but wanted to remain anonymous, Aslan Karatsev and Nikoloz Basilashvili were part of the match-fixing scheme of Yatsik.
"He has been involved in betting fraud for years, works with people involved in match fixing in Russia and Eastern Europe. He always has a lot of money with him, is on the tour and is looking for young players who have problems. Financial or mental," coach who wanted to remain anonymous stated.
"Which he can easily convince with money. Yatsik worked closely with both players, watched them for years. They are both incredibly talented players. But they had financial problems at the beginning and also major periods of weakness, slips in the ranking. At a critical moment in their career, he addressed them."
Soon after the allegations appeared, Karatsev was asked about it and speaking to metaratings.ru, the Russian player answered only shortly.
"I haven’t heard anything about it. I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Father of Aslan Karatsev, Kazbek Karatsev also commented on the situation, when he stated: "This is the first time I hear about it. This simply cannot be. I know that Yatsyk was already suspected of fixed matches in 2020. But what about Aslan? They haven’t worked together for over a year."
"I don’t even know where such information could come from, it became interesting to myself. Maybe some kind of provocation. But Aslan is very calm, he does not bother anyone. I haven’t been able to talk to him about this yet. He has a tournament now, and before the games we usually do not call each other so that he is less worried."
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