{"id":561032,"date":"2026-08-06T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:44:12","slug":"nrl-rabbitohs-and-kiwis-forward-brandon-smith-has-betting-allegation-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561032\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL: Rabbitohs and Kiwis forward Brandon Smith has betting allegation dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe brief of evidence … is extremely poorly prepared, given the delay,\u201d McGirr said.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew Zealand’s Brandon Smith no longer faces a charge relating to insider betting. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

Smith still faces allegations he supplied cocaine to New South Wales and Sydney Roosters forward Victor Radley on June 7, 2025. The Australian has not been charged with an offence.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the South Sydney Rabbitohs said the club acknowledges the outcome of the court proceedings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rabbitohs have informed the NRL Integrity Unit of the outcome of these proceedings,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rabbitohs have no further comment to make on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born on Waiheke Island, Smith debuted for the Melbourne Storm in 2017 and played for the Roosters before joining South Sydney.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old won the 2020 NRL grand final with the Melbourne Storm, beating the Penrith Panthers 26-20 and was sent to the sin bin in the final minute of the match.<\/p>\n

He has played 13 tests for the Kiwis and represented the M\u0101ori All Stars three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe brief of evidence … is extremely poorly prepared, given the delay,\u201d McGirr said. New Zealand’s Brandon Smith…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85970,95,17517,27496,100423,32294,28157,49738,19134,6871,2936,807,27135,111,139,577,69,129380,16189,1240,213,1734],"class_list":["post-561032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allegation","tag-and","tag-because","tag-betting","tag-brandon","tag-charge","tag-dropped","tag-evidence","tag-forward","tag-has","tag-insider","tag-kiwis","tag-lack","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-rabbitohs","tag-smith","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}