Sona Movsesian Instagram – This week the world’s worst assistant & @teamcocopodcasts family member @sonamov joins the Con-gregation to cover Grigor Sargsyan—the man who paid top pro tennis players to lose on purpose while running the biggest tennis match fixing ring in history! Plus, Sona tells us how she scammed her way into co-hosting Conan’s podcast.
PHOTOS (credit to Sebastien Van Malleghem for The Washington Post):
1. Grigor Sargsyan and his many shirt layers
2. Visualization of Grigor’s match-fixing network
3. Grigor playing against Russian world chess champion Anatoly Karpov
4. Karim Hossam who helped Grigor recruit more players
5. Youssef Hossam, the player who was too good to lose on purpose and got caught
6. Nicolas Borremans, the police investigator who helped catch Grigor
7. Grigor’s trial
8. Grigor in prison
This story was primarily investigated by The Washington Post’s Kevin Sieff in his article “Game, Set, Fix”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/tennis-match-fixing-itf-grigor-sargsyan
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675609/the-worlds-worst-assistant-by-sona-movsesian/
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https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press
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