DANSKE SPIL TO SPEARHEAD FOOTBALL CORRUPTION CURB
26 June 2009
Operations aimed at keeping 'the beautiful
game' clean to commence in August
The Copenhagen Post newspaper in Denmark reports that
the state gambling monopoly Danske Spil is to head a new
organisation aimed at curbing corruption in European
football. The newly-created monitoring body will seek to
prevent match fixing by referees and players.
Titled the European Lotteries Monitoring System (ELMS),
the new organisation is a co-operation with European
football’s governing body UEFA and will officially begin
operations in August. Among the tournaments to be
monitored by ELMS are the Champions League, the European
Cup and all European national team matches.
Jens
Nielsen, head of Danske Spil’s sports betting division,
said the agency won the contract to head the body
because it has been the leading organisation assisting a
UEFA-European Lotteries co-operation on fighting
corruption since 2005.
Nielsen said the number of
referee bribes and instances of players being paid to
help their team lose has been increasing since 2000,
with match fixing reportedly occurring most often in a
tournament’s early rounds.
‘It usually occurs
when there are a lot of teams from smaller countries,
and in games where teams from Eastern Europe or the
Balkans are involved,’ said Nielsen.
A special
group within Danske Spil will be assigned solely to
monitor signs of corruption, gathering and reviewing
reports from European gaming organisations that detail
unusual betting patterns.
It is not known whether
Danske Spil will inspan the information and assistance
which advanced technology betting exchange Betfair could
provide.
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