Brazil’s Senate has opened another inquiry into match-fixing in the country’s top soccer divisions. The move comes a year after a sprawling investigation by prosecutors linked 26 people, including players, businesspeople and sports executives, to criminal betting schemes.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday opened another inquiry into match-fixing in the country’s top soccer divisions. The move comes a year after a sprawling investigation by prosecutors linked 26 people, including players, businesspeople and sports executives, to criminal betting schemes.
Sen. Romario de Souza Faria, a World Cup winner in 1994, made the request for the inquiry last week. A similar investigation in the country’s lower house ended in frustration six months ago. Faria said the Senate inquiry should use as a reference a recent report published by technology company SportRadar, which put 109 matches played in Brazil in 2023 under suspicion of match-fixing.in the state of Goias is still ongoing. It showed last year that players in Brazil’s first and second divisions were allegedly offered up to $20,000 by criminal syndicates to perform specific actions during games, such as receiving yellow cards and giving away penalty kicks.
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