[3] In July 2019, Kasimi was caught cheating in a Strasbourg tournament, after which he admitted to the transgression and announced his immediate retirement from chess.

The Czech Chess Federation subsequently cancelled his membership,[4] and the FIDE Ethics Commission stripped him of his Grandmaster title and gave him a six-year ban.

[15] Prior to the incident, Rausis had been under suspicion for several months;[16] FIDE's Fair Play Commission Secretary, Yuri Garrett, stated in a Facebook post that the Commission "has been closely following [Rausis] for months" on the basis of Ken Regan's statistical insights.

[18] In 2020, Kasimi entered a small tournament in Latvia, which was not rated by FIDE so not subject to his ban from chess.

[8] Kasimi was first married to Olita Rause, a Latvian Woman Grandmaster, changed his surname from Kondylev to Rausis after her, and had two daughters with her.