UEFA sounds alarm over match-fixing

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007

BERLIN (AFP) — European football's governing body UEFA has called in police organisation Europol to investigate possible match-fixing by Asian betting syndicates in top-flight European football, Der Spiegel magazine is reporting in it's Monday edition.

According to the magazine five UEFA officials visited the Europol headquarters in The Hague during early November to handover a 96-page dossier outling suspicions that games were being fixed.

This covered a total of 26 games, including three in the third preliminary round of the Champions League, two in the UEFA Cup and one in the qualifiers for Euro 2008.

Fifteen of the suspect games were played during the current season with the the other 11 between July 2005 and November 2006, Der Spiegel said. They mostly...