Swedish Gambling Regulator Reveals Suspected Match-Fixing Reports Mostly Related to Football

Reports of suspected match-fixing dropped by half compared to 2021

by - Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 9:47

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Swedish Gambling Regulator Reveals Suspected Match-Fixing Reports Mostly Related to Football on suspicious betting activity for the period from February 2022 to December 2022.

Swedish Gambling Regulator Reveals Suspected Match-Fixing Reports Mostly Related to Football

Spelinspektionen’s report also notes that gambling operators reported all suspicious activity for the previous years which was then aggregated by Sportradar. The reports revealed 53 suspicious bets during 24 different matches throughout 2021. 19 of these matches were football matches while the others included basketball, ice hockey, tennis, and bandy.

Swedish Gambling Regulator Reveals Suspected Match-Fixing Reports Mostly Related to Football

Spelinspektionen did not provide any further details on any action that may be taken to address and potential suspicious activity nor did it name the matches that match-fixing may have taken place in.

Thomas Nielsen

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Swedish Gambling Regulator Reveals Suspected Match-Fixing Reports Mostly Related to Football