Many people woke up with surprise when they
read or heard the news about investigations taking place about match fixing.
These investigations have been conducted by Europol, which is European Union’s law
enforcement agency. This agency is investigating into various betting systems across Europe and they
will inspect most matches that took place in the last three to four years.
There are as many as 425 match officials, players, club officials and other serious
criminals from across 15 European nations who are under the suspected list. As
you can imagine this is one of the biggest investigations taken up in the
present times. Mostly the Europol is investigating into match fixing clues for
Champions League, European Championships and World Cup. But some newspapers in
the UK even flashed the news that FA has decided to investigate English Premier
and other major competitions.
The fixing is said to have been done by a
growing criminal network based in Asia. The scale of corruption in Germany
solely is £13.8 million out
of which £1.73 million were
paid to parties involved. One of the Champions League fixtures that took place
in England is one of the 380 fixtures that are being investigated into. Till
date as many as 50 people have been arrested in regards to this investigation.
Though a game played in UK is under scrutiny but the Europol authorities
claimed that UK was not under the scanner. UEFA has stated that there will be
zero tolerance followed for those found guilty. They have also requested all
the national football associations to cooperate with the investigations.
As per latest reports a Champions League
match played between Drebecen and Liverpool in 2009 is being investigated for
unfair transactions. Liverpool had won this match with a solitary goal by Dirk
Kuyt.
Such an investigation has shaken the entire
soccer betting systems. But betting
in UK is legal till the point it is fair and does not intrude with the
proceedings going on on-field. Tips for
soccer for this week would be to bet fairly. Let everyone enjoy a fair
game. Fixing up results is not good anyone.
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