Friday, April 15, 2011

Landgericht Bochum: First Case in the betting scandal - high imprisonment

Tough penalties for the "enemies of Sports": the first trial, for the most scandalous manipulation of European football history, the 13th Like criminal division of the Bochum district court on Thursday the verdicts and sentences with high betting scams all given a clear warning signs. The presiding judge imposed the maximum prison Carsten Schwadrat sentence of three years and eleven months to twelve times previously convicted Stevan R., A.

Tuna received three years and eight months, G. Nürretin three years. R. and A. sentenced for commercial and gang-fraud, G. for fraud. The defendants accepted the verdict in the room C240 of the District Court apparently unmoved note. A. Tuna had said immediately before the verdict his lack of understanding about the whole process: "What have I already done? I've been playing my whole life.

And if I was Marijo (betting Marijo C. Pate, the editor) called and said, 'play the game', then I guess I just have set. I did not really know if he made something. "Like his co-defendants had the Turk in many cases he is accused, in fact, does not manipulate themselves, but only from the knowledge of the betting patrons Ante Sapina and Marijo C.

benefits. Among other things the lawyers had pleaded for acquittal and a review before the Federal Court in Karlsruhe as "highly likely" means. All three defendants had in the course of some six-month process that took 29 hearing days, but also admitted that even manipulated and bribed players to have.

Tuna A. and G. Nürretin have already served 13 months of her sentence in custody. The 14-times convicted Stevan R. sat least because of past offenses even more. Of the original 32 games, which should have been shifted according to the indictment, went for 18 in the sentence, including a portion of the second division club VfL Osnabrueck, games of the A-Junioren Bundesliga, the DFB Cup and in Switzerland.

The prosecution had asked for Tuna A. four years and three months for four years and Stevan R. G. Nürretin for three years and nine months imprisonment. Thus, the Court remained the only early in the course of the proceedings confessed G. Nürretin well below the requests of the Prosecutor.

The case against co-defendants Kristian S., who has not yet been, had been cut off on Wednesday as well as cases involving the Belgian second division UR Namur. The club had fallen almost completely under the control of the betting cheats. This threat may be especially Tuna A. additionally adversity.

In parallel proceedings before the 12th Criminal Chamber of the Landgericht Bochum, which is negotiated among others against the competition sponsors Ante Sapina and Marijo C., are expected to judgments after the Easter break in early May. The first verdicts are likely to have triggered the "big fish" discomfort.

Sapina was a mastermind behind the scandal over the manipulation of referee Robert Hoyzer in 2005 was before the District Court of Berlin "only" sentenced to two years and eleven months in prison. The court followed the verdict seems to be also a fundamental view of the prosecutor Andreas Bachmann.

He had referred in his 100-minute plea on Wednesday, the defendants not only as "enemies of the sport" that had acted "out of sheer greed and egotism." He also called on the court, also in view of the past Hoyzer processes, in terms of prevention crack down. "The time prison sentences have not prevented from spreading to a much larger group of people." Sapina repeat offenders must face the prospect comfortable with a six-year prison sentence.

Again this process takes Bachmann the prosecution.

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