INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin - 6-19 February 2017
In this edition, a wealth of match-fixing cases came from crickets in South Africa to Pakistan and to Sri Lanka. There are also some cases of match-fixing related to betting, which shows the importance of monitoring betting for suspicious or unusual betting. Football continues to be marred with allegations of match-fixing. One such investigation ended with a ban of 15-22 players from the Asian Football Confederation for matches fixed in the Laos national teams.
Meanwhile, we follow the case of the Australian teenager who was provisionally suspended until the investigation is over on suspicions of match-fixing.
Finally, we look at the case from Switzerland, where a man was acquitted a second time for match-fixing as a result of the lack of legislation in sporting fraud.
The Integrity in Sports Programme is still involved in many events around the world in the upcoming month to raise awareness on the severity of match-fixing, among other crimes in sports.
