Leicester Tigers have been fined £309,841.06 (€368,656) but avoided any points deduction after a Premiership Rugby investigation found they had failed to comply with salary cap regulations.
It was discovered that the league leaders had entered into an arrangement whereby a third-party company made payments to the image rights companies of Leicester players.
The payments that were made over the four seasons from 2016-17 to 2019-20 should have been declared as part of part of their salary cap, but they were not disclosed.
Leicester have been spared greater sanction due to the salary cap being exceeded by less than the “overrun” limit.
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- March 16, 2022
