{"id":33310,"date":"2013-02-04T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33310"},"modified":"2013-02-04T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:01:57","slug":"eurpean-footballmatch-fixing-scandal-in-uefa-champions-league-breaking-news-33310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/eurpean-footballmatch-fixing-scandal-in-uefa-champions-league-breaking-news-33310\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurpean Football:Match-Fixing scandal in UEFA Champions League \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/football-money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33317\" title=\"football-money\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/football-money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/football-money.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/football-money-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>President of the European Police Office, Rob Wainwright said, 380 football match-fixing made, and one of them \u00a0to play in the Champions League.<\/h1>\n<p>The matches also included European Championship qualifiers, two Champions League games and some top flight league matches.<\/p>\n<p>One Champions League match played in England was among the games fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Wainwright, head of the European police agency Europol, said the investigation had identified about 425 corrupt officials, players and serious criminals in 15 countries.<\/p>\n<p>It had uncovered &#8220;match fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the allegedly fixed matches were played in Turkish, German and Swiss championships, but other matches around the world are also concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries found evidence that a Singapore-based crime group was closely involved, spending up to 100,000 euros (\u00a386,000) per match to bribe players and officials.<\/p>\n<p>The probe uncovered 8m euros (\u00a36.9m) in betting profits and 2m euros in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wainwright said the involvement of organised crime &#8220;highlights a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how many of the matches mentioned have been revealed in previous match fixing investigations at a national level in countries including Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in The Hague, Europol showed television coverage of a suspect match, an international between Argentina and Bolivia, during which a Hungarian referee awards a highly dubious penalty.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! 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