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A criminal network suspected of having faked 680 football matches, including meetings of the Champions League and qualifying for the World Cup, has been dismantled, announced Monday, 4 February the European Police Office Europol.

"It seems clear that this is the greatest of all time investigation on alleged match-fixing, said Europol Director Rob Wainwright during a press conference in The Hague, arguing that its services had identified 425 officials, players and criminals involved in fifteen countries. "survey highlights a big problem of integrity in European football," said the head of Europol. system, directed from Singapore, produced more than 8 million profit in the match-fixing, for a total bet of 16 million euros. "This is the work of a sophisticated and organized criminal cartel that is based in Asia and works with relays in Europe, "said Rob Waingright. leader Europol assured he would write to UEFA president Michel Platini to convey the results of the survey including football" should take note. "

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"Most of these games were played in the championships Turkish, German and Swiss, said Europol. But other games around the world are concerned." And two Champions League matches and qualifiers for the World Cup have been implicated. Europol in particular showed images of an international meeting between - 20 years in Argentina and Bolivia in 2010 in which a Hungarian referee awarded a penalty was more contentious than in favor of Argentina.

Meetings, some of which have already been the subject of investigations and judicial proceedings were played between 2008 and 2011. Europol scored 380 match-fixing in Europe and 300 in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Chief investigator Police Bochum (Germany), Freidhelm Althans, said the network was using "mail" envelopes carrying of up to 100 000 euros per game, which was used to pay players and referees. "We have gathered evidence in 150 cases," he said. Accomplices then took paris online or by phone with bookmakers in Asia, which are accepted from paris that would be illegal in Europe. "The money of up to 100 000 euros per match were paid in cash," he assured the investigator.

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