Taking advantage of the trust of the players at TSM’s League of Legends team, Peter Zhang has cheated and appropriated a lot of salary in the past time.
Some time ago, the coach of TSM was accused of “scamming and stealing salary” of players at this Esports organization. At that time, TSM also confirmed the incident of announcing the dismissal of this suspicious coach.
After entering and investigating the top of the incident, Riot Games has an official punishment for this scandalous coach:
The organizers of the top North American League of Legends tournament – LCS have announced the penalty for Peter Zhang.
“Zhang “Peter Zhang” Yi is permanently banned from any team, association or organization in competitions organized by Riot. The reason is because Peter Zhang has committed alarming, unethical behavior towards TSM players and staff in the past and present.
Peter Zhang violated the LCS Code by transferring part of a player’s salary to his (and accomplices’) account, selling player’s cars and not making full compensation, repeatedly borrowing players. and employees of TSM.” – Riot Games announced the punishment for the former TSM coach.
The former coach of TSM has received a “Global Ban” penalty – permanently not appearing in Riot Games tournaments.
More details about the “illegal” money and this coach obtained are as follows:
Approximately 250,000 USD (about 5.8 billion VND) salary of 2 TSM players was “transferred to the wrong object” by Peter Zhang. By “making up” a reason about the payment procedures for Chinese foreign soldiers, this coach has “avoided” a large amount of the salary of the two players he manages. Coach TSM helped SwordArt sell cars for about $80,000 in the US, but this coach only paid $35,000 for SwordArt, and the remaining $45,000 is still “debts that have not been paid yet”. More than $15,000 in loans from players and staff at TSM. If the players and staff did not stop it in time, this number would have increased by another 20,000 USD.
Previously, TSM was repeatedly called out by the community because of a series of dramas related to famous names such as Doublelift and his girlfriend Leena Xu (former TSM president), SwordArt, training attitude, etc. This time, the image of the “big man” in North America is gradually fading in the eyes of the League of Legends community.
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