First trial on matchfixning – Swedish Dagbladet

Today begins the first trial of suspected bribery in Swedish football.

Indicted is a player suspected of having offered players of IFK Värnamo money to lose a match against Gais last year. The bribe was declined by Värnamo players. The defendants deny the charges.

But this is no exception. This week reported SVT Mission examination of a case of the program’s reporter met a player who previously played in Sweden. The player said he had “done business” with people in a club in the Premier League and two in the headlines.

– This year I have one done as he promised, so it became. I promise, four pieces of the same team have been involved, said the player.

Mission examination later in a telephone confronts the player with that player said that he was only joking.

There is no research on matchfixning in Sweden and therefore believes the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) that there is a risk that the cases so far uncovered only the tip of the iceberg.

– One can not exclude that there may be more cases, says Johan Claesson , the Foundation’s coordinator for issues concerning matchfixning.

The Football Association and the Swedish Elite Football To access the suspicious game cheat through tougher punishment of players of fixing matches, up to ten years proposed. Football associations also want to stop the game on non match-winning moments of corners and warnings.

But the Swedish government is awaiting. Of the 51 countries that took out the Council of Europe Convention against matchfixning in sport has three not signed the convention: Romania, Ukraine and Sweden.

– Here we end up in the corner, I’m a little concerned when it is really about the which defines sport as its biggest threat, says Social Democratic parliamentarian Kent Härstedt which is the Council of Europe rapporteur on the issue.