MORE DETAIL ON EUROPEAN FOOTBALL POLICE SWEEP
(Update)
27 November 2009
Up to 200 matches could have been fixed
More details are starting to emerge on Friday's
assertion by German prosecutors that a major
international police action against football
match-fixing is currently in progress across Europe (see
previous InfoPowa report).
European media are
widely reporting that as many as 200 suspects could be
involved in fixing or tried to fix approximately the
same number of matches across Europe, including three in
the Champions League, in what UEFA called the biggest
betting scandal in Europe yet seen.
Police in
Germany, Britain, Austria and Switzerland staged
simultaneous raids, arresting 17 as yet unidentified
people and seizing one million Euros in cash or goods as
part of an investigation into the suspected manipulation
of games across nine European leagues.
Bochum
police in Germany said at a news conference late Friday
that 200 people were suspected of being part of the ring
that tried to rig about 200 matches.
Some 32
matches in Germany's lower divisions as well as dozens
of first or second division matches in Turkey, Bosnia,
Hungary, Croatia, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia are
under investigation, they revealed.
The
investigation, which unearthed what UEFA representative
Peter Limacher called Europe's biggest-ever betting
scam, included only matches played in 2009.
"We
at UEFA are stunned by the magnitude of this," Limacher
told reporters.
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