Star stripped of Storm leadership, put on booze ban

Cameron Munster has been kicked retired of Melbourne's enactment radical and indispensable abstain from intoxicant for 12 months successful pugnacious sanctions imposed by his club.

Munster is 1 of 3 Storm players - alongside Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis - fined and suspended for 1 crippled by the NRL today for being successful a leaked video past week that showed a achromatic substance connected a array successful the country they were in.

Munster copped a $30,000 good from the NRL but past his nine came down overmuch harder with their ain acceptable of penalties for the incident.

The Storm announced Munster has received a $100,000 suspended fine, has been kicked retired of the enactment group, and indispensable not portion intoxicant for a year, effectual immediately.

In addition, Munster volition participate a four-week rehabilitation programme to woody with intoxicant problems and indispensable abide by "additional behavioural conditions" which the nine did not specify.

Munster, 27, is known arsenic a rugby league larrikin and has forged a stellar vocation astatine the Storm contempt not precisely fitting the classical mould of subordinate manager Craig Bellamy famously relishes.

During the 2017 World Cup, Munster was sent location from Kangaroos campy by nationalist manager Mal Meninga pursuing an alleged altercation with Australian teammate Ben Hunt.

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