Ukraine accuses 35 football clubs of match-fixing
22 May 2018 6:06 PM GMT
Kiev: Ukraine on Tuesday accused 35 football clubs of being involved in a match fixing operation than earned organisers millions of dollars a year. Police said two-thirds of all teams in Ukraine's top divisions took part. Neither perennial champions Dynamo Kyiv nor Shakhtar Donetsk were named.
"Club presidents, former and current players, referees, trainers and commercial organisations were involved," Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on Facebook.
"In total, we have documented the involvement of 320 individuals in 57 proven cases." Avakov said organisers earned up to 5 million (4.2 million euros) a year by making bets in Asia on pre-determined results of Ukrainian matches.
Ukraine's deputy police chief Igor Kupranets separately told reporters that no arrests had been made. Kupranets added that prosecutors would decide whether and when to bring charges against the suspects.
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