Friday, September 25, 2009

Uefa investigating Champions League and UEFA Cup match-fixing...

Uefa is investigating 40 cases of match-fixing involving games in the Champions League and Uefa Cup.

Peter Limacher, head of disciplinary services at Uefa, told The Associated Press on Friday that the cases involved early qualifying matches of clubs, mainly from Eastern Europe, over the past four years.

Mr Limacher said that his organisation had been alerted to suspicious betting patterns. "In the cases we have seen it's really the deliberate planned fix of the games — the whole games," he said. "It might take some time [to convict] but in cases where we can work together with the police that might be possible. More...

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