ARCHIVE: How common is match-fixing in Swedish elite football (May 17):
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SVT Sports' survey shows that there is a lot of match-fixing in Swedish football.
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It was in connection with a drug crime investigation that the case was discovered.
The now-convicted player, who is currently active at a lower level, then revealed the attempts to influence match-fixing.
"They wanted me to fix matches for XXX (the club in question) so that the debt would disappear quickly, but I did not want to," says the player, it appears from the preliminary investigation report.
The player was later convicted of drug offenses.
Reported to the disciplinary committee
However, the player did not report these attempts to the Swedish Football Association, which they are obliged to do.
When this was discovered, a representative of the association chose to report the incident to the association's disciplinary committee, which has now decided to sentence the player to one year suspension.
This despite the player denying wrongdoing, as he claims that at the time he did not have a contract with any club.
However, this statement does not buy the disciplinary committee.
"In light of what XX (the player) himself has stated in police interrogation, the Disciplinary Committee shares the view that his explanation that the contact attempt should have been made after the termination of the player agreement is unlikely and almost appears as an afterthought," they write in the verdict, where the latter fixed:
"The Disciplinary Committee thus finds that the complainant has proved that XX at the time when he was contacted to participate in manipulation - belonged to XXX and thus was covered by the anti-match fixing regulations".
"Can have major consequences"
This is the first time a player has been convicted of not reporting the incident.
Anders Hübinette, General Counsel at the Swedish Football Association, tells SVT Sport that this is a sign of the match-fixing problem in Swedish football.
- This is something you should take very seriously and is something that can have major consequences.
How big a problem does Swedish football have with match-fixing right now?
- It is always very, very difficult to say.
But we can not say that it has decreased in any case.
We get signs that there are suspicious phenomena and so on.
But it is extremely difficult to say.
The player has appealed the verdict to the Swedish Sports Board.
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