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World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has hinted that John Higgins could be suspended after reports suggested that he agreed to accept £261,000 in return for deliberately losing frames.

A video published by the News of the World allegedly shows Higgins and his manager Pat Mooney making a deal in Ukraine.

"I've read the piece, I've seen the video, I would imagine I can't see any reason not to suspend him at this moment in time," Hearn told BBC Radio Five Live. "We'll make a decision within the next 24 hours on how we're going to play it.

"I don't see any place in sport, in any sport, for anyone who affects the credibility or the integrity of any sport. I'm not going to make knee-jerk reactions on this. I'm absolutely mortified because I know both these guys."

Higgins has not been accused of any previous indiscretions by the newspaper - and there are no suggestions he has been involved in fixing the results of any frames or matches to date.

Mooney has suggested that himself and Higgins were in fear of their safety when at the meeting in Ukraine. "You have no idea what the circumstances were in Kiev, that's why I have no comment," he is quoted as saying in the News of the World. "But we were genuinely in fear for our safety."