The organisation, dismantled in Seville, Cádiz, Almería and Badajoz, could have won more than €500,000 betting on First and Second RFEF and Gribraltar league matches
The dismantling of the organization dedicated to capturing football matches in the First and Second RFEF (former Second B and Third Division) and the National League of Gibraltar has led to 21 arrests and six persons under investigation in Seville, Cádiz, Almería and Badajoz . The sports betting plot, dismantled last week by the National Police in a joint operation with Interpol and Europol, consisted of active football players from non-professional clubs in Andalusia and Gibraltar, 12 of whom are among those detained, of whom he is accused of have defrauded more than 500,000 euros.
“The organization consisted of two men connected to the world of professional football, football players who abused their profession to provide privileged information, brokers who provided identities to operate in the online game, and mules who went to gambling dens to pre- determine sports bets and collect the prizes won’, the National Police announced on Wednesday.
The detainees are charged with alleged crimes of membership in a criminal organization, corruption between individuals on the sports field and fraud against gambling operators. In three house searches during the so-called ‘Operation Conifer’ in Andalusia and Extremadura, 60,000 euros in cash, two vehicles, mobile terminals and computer equipment were seized.
The first allegedly faked match was in May 2021, but more than 20 non-professional football matches in Spain are suspected of corruption. The alleged criminal organization, with its epicenter in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), was made up of players who took advantage of their condition to agree on results “in teams under their influence”.
Source: La Verdad
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