Published 2015-09-16 21:00
Gothenburg. First bribed the three soccer players to fix matches. Then threatened the two men players and extorted money from them. On Wednesday brought to prosecutor Johan Lindmark charges against six people in the extensive matchfixningshärvan in southern Sweden.
First bribed the three soccer players to fix matches. Then threatened the two men players and extorted money from them. On Wednesday brought to prosecutor Johan Lindmark charges against six people in the extensive matchfixningshärvan in southern Sweden.
Four of the defendants are football players, all with connections to a Division 1 club in southern Sweden. Three of the players were active last season.
The fourth player is the same 25-year-old who last year was indicted in the so-called Värnamo case for offering bribes in connection with a match in the Premier League. The man was acquitted in the District Court, but the verdict has been appealed.
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The two principals of the present case, a 44 year old professional tennis player and his 34-year-old good friend, have been detained since early last summer.
– I can confirm that I today filed charges and that these two people figures in several other investigations, says Johan Lindmark.
The indictment gives a nasty picture of how fixed matches and extortion has become part of Swedish football.
According to the prosecutor, the three players have agreed to fix the outcome of a match autumn 2013. The result was not desired and therefore demanded the principals back a total of SEK 150,000 from the players. They should at the same time threatening to kill or injure the players.
In connection with another match later that same autumn urged the players to ensure that the team leading after the first half and then let in so many goals as possible after the break. Two of the players will also be invited to put on red cards. Only in one case it became a reality.
In a third match the spring of 2014 forced one of the players
The men be as late as June of this year have threatened the player and his family and called him 200,000 crowns.
The 23-year-old player announced last spring suddenly he ends his football career. Reportedly to DN, he has simultaneously decided to talk about the extortion.
The principals prosecuted, including for abuse of judicial procedure.
Even a co-defendant 25-year-old teammate broke his contract with the club spring. The third player, 24, played in the spring, but suspended from the club since the allegations against him became known.
A former leader of the club says to DN that long had suspicions against the 24-year-old player since he was acting strangely for several matches.
– We confronted him with this during a meeting and wondered what was going on, but he explained that there was nothing and then it turned out that his contract was extended, says leader .
principal’s name runs like a red thread through police investigations into match-fixing. Professional player, who previously ran a betting shop and convicted of serious economic crime, was sentenced last spring to 18 months in prison in the large matchfixningsrättegången in Norway.
Along with the 34-year-old, he was arrested earlier this year for having been behind a game coup, which include two football referees on suspicion of being involved.
The men are suspected of having earned big money on matchfixning. In the current case, consider the prosecutor that they won nearly a quarter of a million crowns in three international gaming companies, money that they be ordered to pay it back.
One of the current games were included in the so-called fyrlingen, as previously described DN. The 34-year-old man 2013 will have traveled to several hundred thousand crowns in cash or with others bet on four games combined at odds with several gaming agents.
The gain would have been over ten million, but the game did not go into, partly because of a match which is now included in the indictment did not stop as the men did.
The 25-year-old player in Värnamo The case described by sources within the police as an errand boy for the two principals. The player, who after he was acquitted in the District Court was closed by the Swedish Football Association, will then have left Sweden. His case in the Court of Appeal next month.
The latter denies deeds. Even two of the defendants denied the players in connection with the detention negotiations to failure.
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