ALJAZEERA: European police warned on Monday that the integrity of football [soccer] was at stake, as they revealed they had smashed a criminal network fixing hundreds of matches, including in the Champions League and World Cup qualifiers.
Europol said a five-country probe had identified 380 suspicious matches targeted by a Singapore-based betting cartel, whose illegal activities stretched to players, referees and officials across the world at all levels of the game…
“It is the work of a sophisticated organised crime syndicate based in Asia and working with criminal facilitators around Europe,” said Wainwright… (more)
