Emil Sutovsky, Director General of FIDE, just reported that Rausis has been busted for cheating. He was under suspicion and has been caught at a tournament in Strasbourg France. The French police are investigating.
The FIDE fair play team led by IM Kenneth Regan, has apparently done a statistical analysis of Rausis’ games and alerted the arbiters to check him.
Looking at the last FIDE rating list I noticed some 58 year old guy, who I never heard of, in the top 100 named Igors Rausis. Inspecting his profile you can see that he is unbeaten since over 100 games... but his opposition consists mainly of players that are rated 400 points below him. He is soon to break the 2700 barrier.. no one can stop him hahaha.
I think FIDE should do something about stuff like that.. the 400 rating difference boundary gives a minimum gain of 0.8 rating points per win which allows nonsense like this to happen and there will always be someone found to abuse this. IMO they should set it to like 600 or 650 (or whatever the correct number is) which gives a minimum gain of 0.1 points..