INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin - 13 August 2019 - 26 August 2019
In Australia, detectives from the Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit, along with detectives from the Organised Crime Intelligence Unit, have arrested six individuals in relation to an investigation into suspicious betting activity relating to an eSports league.
In terms of sanctions, a Chilean tennis player has been suspended for eight years and fined $12,500 after being found guilty of failing to co-operate with a Tennis Integrity Unit investigation and of not reporting a corrupt approach. FIFA banned for life a former Nigeria national coach for having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches. In Zimbabwe, the government-run Sports and Recreation Commission requested FIFA to have the Zimbabwe Football Association run by a normalization committee until new elections can be held.
In Sweden, the gambling regulator imposed strict measures that would penalize any gambling firm that features odds on sports where the majority of players are under age 18, therefore, limiting the growth of eSports betting in the country.
In Ukraine, the security services accused leading sports officials of purchasing medicine for athletes which were non-compliant with anti-doping rules.
In Algeria, the Directorate General for National Security and the Algerian Olympic Committee signed an agreement to fight all forms of corruption in sport.
INTERPOL’s Match-Fixing Task Force cooperated with the Belgian National Platform in the monitoring of the Hockey European Championship jointly organized by the European Hockey Federation and the Belgian Hockey Federation in Antwerp, Belgium.
A recent match-fixing working group meeting organized by UEFA brought together national delegates as well as experts from INTERPOL and other international organizations to discuss future actions in protecting the integrity of competitions.
The Movement for Credible Cycling published the figures of doping cases in professional cycling worldwide since the beginning of 2019. Compared to the previous year, the sport’s credibility decreased, with doping cases in Colombia, Slovenia and Austria, among others.
Lastly, we would like to share with our readership the latest Suspicious Betting Trends in Global Football Report <https://www.starlizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Suspicious_trends_2019_MS-v3.pdf>
2019 from Stats Perform Integrity and Starlizard Integrity Services. Among others, the report shows that six women’s football games were identified as having suspicious betting partners in 2018, compared to zero in 2017.
We welcome submissions on best practices, major developments, new trends and relevant articles for publication in the bulletin.
The next bi-weekly bulletin will be circulated on Monday, 9 September 2019.
- Algeria Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) Anti-Corruption Anti-Doping Apex Legends Australia Bet365 Betfair Betting Betway Bwin Cambodia Chile China Colombia Colombo Council of Europe Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Cricket Cycling Directorate General for National Security (DGSN) DreamHack Esport Esports Esportsbetting_com EURO 2020 integrity action plan FIFA Football Fortnite Fortnite World Cup France Gambling International Cricket Council (ICC) International Tennis Federation (ITF) Le Mouvement pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC) Match-Fixing Nigeria NordicBet Olympic Paris Philippines Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit Sports Sportstar Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Cricket Starlizard Integrity Services Stats Perform Suspicious Betting Trends in Global Football report Sweden Swedish Gambling Authority Tennis Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) Turkey Turkish Football Federation (TFF) TXODDS UEFA Ukraine United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Women's Football Women’s World Cup Youth Football Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA)
