Thursday, April 7, 2011

Betting scandal trial: Ante Sapina admits manipulation of league matches

Ante Sapina has been in the betting scandal process, its involvement in manipulation in European soccer leagues. "I have contributed to the cost, when players were given money," said the main defendant on the fifth day of hearings before the district court of Bochum. The 35-year-old admitted that, together with his partner Marijo C.

bribed among other players in Switzerland. "We have manipulated some games," he said. Even in his interrogation after the arrest in November 2009 and the trial of four other alleged betting fraudster had the Berliner, who in 2005 was convicted in the scandal of the DFB referee Robert Hoyzer to two years and eleven months imprisonment, a far-reaching confession stored.

Among other things, he admitted to having bribed FIFA referee. On Thursday, Judge Wolfgang Mittrup went through with Sapina the individual games that are under suspicion of manipulation. The alleged head of the betting mafia confirmed that a training camp of the Bosnian clubs NK Travnik organized in Switzerland and funded to achieve high winnings with match-fixing.

Marijo C. had organized the games "with Fifa referees and well-known opponents," said Sapina, who is accused by the prosecution in 43 cases of commercial fraud and gang. A total of 52 charges are kept to the six accused persons affected are 46 matches in Germany, Europe and Canada. Besides Sapina and Marijo C.

Four suspects accused of helpers. They should bribed players and referees rigged games and bet on high profits have achieved.

No comments:

Post a Comment