INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin - 10th September 2019 - 23rd September 2019

Under the direction of a Belgian anti-corruption judge, police and tax officials made seven raids across Belgium, Monaco and London, detaining an agent in Monaco and his assistant in the Belgian city of Liege in relation to transfer fraud. The former general manager of Belgian football club Anderlecht was detained as well.

A Belgian court demanded a six month prison sentence for a cyclist who paid a competitor to secure his win in the cycling classic Liege Bastogne-Liege in 2010.

In France, a judge indicted three people in the city of Nice for betting related manipulation of a first division football game in the Tunisian football championship.

In India, Bengaluru City Police has launched an investigation into the alleged match fixing in the Karnataka Premier League Cricket. At the same time, the Central Crime Branch has summoned four cricketers in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) in relation to another match-fixing scandal. Finally, Indian police have also registered a case against two alleged bookies for approaching a cricketer from the women's national team to fix matches.

Wales’s rugby World Cup campaign has been thrown into disarray after their assistant coach was sent home from the tournament in Japan in relation to a potential breach of World Rugby regulations relating to betting on rugby union.

A Brazilian tennis player has been banned from professional tennis for life and fined $125,000 after being convicted of multiple match-fixing offences. Furthermore, a Russian tennis player has been suspended for three months and fined $3,000 after being found guilty of attempting to contrive the outcome of a first round qualifying match at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in

The Philippines Bureau of Immigration has deported a South Korean fugitive wanted by authorities in Seoul for allegedly operating an illegal gambling web site following an INTERPOL red notice.

In the United Kingdom, football club Liverpool suspended its partnership with a betting firm pending a full investigation and suspension by the UK betting regulator for offering illegal content.

The IAAF, track and field’s world governing body has banned a former adviser for life over alleged corruption in relation to doping cases, while

FIFA banned a South American football official for life two years after the official’s conviction in a corruption probe launched by the US Department of Justice.

The next bi-weekly bulletin will be circulated on Monday, 14 October 2019.

Tuesday, 24 September 2019