The National Police he has stop a ten soccer players of the second and third RFEF teams in Badajoz, Seville, Almería and Cádiz, some of them from the club of Atletico Sanluqueno, from Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz), by fixing matches and then get big profits on sports betting.
According to the National Police, the operation conducted this Tuesday in the said provinces was directed against a criminal organization maybe focused on match-fixing with the RFEF and the Gibraltar National League.
The investigation, which is open and under secret summary issued by a court in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) has the support of Europol at Interpol.
So far they have been arrested 10 people for alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, corruption between individuals in the field of sports and fraud against game operators.
According to initial investigations, the criminal organization allegedly operated from May 2021 when they were seen by the Directorate General for Gambling Regulation because of the irregular conduct of the betting market on the occasion of a match with the Third Division.
The network is divided into several steps and consists of football players who took advantage of their situation to organize sheltered sports teams under his influence.
Once the sporting event was identified, the organization was carried out betting on match fixingearns big.
Sources close to the police operation told EFE that among those arrested were there some players from Atlético Sanluqueñothat in a statement ensures that as a club “It has never been investigated”, that he was “unrelated to all these facts” and he was “in the most utter ignorance”.
If the arrests are confirmed “and the presumption of innocence is always respected, Atlético Sanluqueño will take the Proposals who it thinks is necessary about the players or anyone involved in relation to the club ”.
Atletico Sanluqueno strongly condemned this or any prohibited practice that conflicts with the core values of the sport and the club itself, ”the statement said.
Source: La Verdad
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