{"id":4734,"date":"2010-03-24T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:20:29","slug":"middle-man-turkish-match-fixing-scandal-arrested-turkey-47347656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/middle-man-turkish-match-fixing-scandal-arrested-turkey-47347656\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle man in Turkish match fixing scandal arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">A man in Antalya \/ Turkey has been arrested by Turkish police linked to the football match fixing scandal that has rocked the country.<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4743\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4743\" title=\"Antalya Man Arrested for match fixing - nationalturk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Antalya-Man-Arrested-for-match-fixing-nationalturk-280x189.jpg\" alt=\"Moment man only known as S.P. arrested in Antalya for match fixing allegations\" width=\"280\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Antalya-Man-Arrested-for-match-fixing-nationalturk-280x189.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Antalya-Man-Arrested-for-match-fixing-nationalturk.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moment man only known as S.P. arrested in Antalya for match fixing allegations : image by DHA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Istanbul \/ Turkey&#8217;s financial crime police unit had conducted a simultaneous raid in several cities in the country arresting close to 50 suspects including several high profile sportsman.<\/h2>\n<p>The man from Antalya only known as S.P. is thought to be unemployed and was arrested by Antalya police forces.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is thought to be the middle man who enables the match fixing gang to communicate with professional footballers and other officials.<\/p>\n<p>S.P. will be handed over to the Istanbul based financial crime police unit for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The simultaneous raids in dozens of addresses in Turkey was a result of the Bochum match fixing investigation which shocked the European sporting world after major European Leagues and European competitions including champions league matches were thought to have been manipulated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bochum\u2019s police director Friedhelm Althans the betting gang was thought have made close to $15 million dollars by bribing Football players, referees, coaches and other football officials to fix games.<\/p>\n<p>National Turk \/ Antalya<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested Match fixing : A man in Antalya \/ Turkey has been arrested by Turkish police linked to the football match fixing scandal that has rocked the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,17,118,1633,14],"tags":[5904,5903,5906,5882,5902,5907,5883,5905],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-europe","category-hot","category-turkey-sport","category-world","tag-antalya-man-arrested-match-fixing","tag-antalya-man-match-fixing","tag-match-fixing-scandal","tag-match-fixing-turkey","tag-middle-man-arrested","tag-turkey-football","tag-turkey-match-fixing","tag-turkish-match-fixing-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}