Already today, a week earlier than planned, the historic match-fixing trial ended in Malmö, where the new gaming law that was instituted in 2019 is being tried by a Swedish court for the first time.
The most notable part of the trial concerns a former Allsvenskan player who was accused of having received a yellow card on purpose in an Allsvenskan match.
"Private loan"
According to prosecutor Staffan Edlund, he took the warning to take out a loan of SEK 300,000.
However, according to the player, this loan was a private loan with no other obligations than that he would pay SEK 100,000 in interest.
- It is a civil law agreement between two people, nothing else.
And the interest rate that it would have rendered at is very good, so there are no other side obligations, says the player's defense lawyer Frank Thorstensson to SVT Sport.
27 new gaming accounts
However, the prosecutor is of a different opinion.
As evidence, he pointed out, among other things, that the promissory note that determined the loan was written for three days before the match, but that the money was not paid out until after the match.
In addition, no less than 27 new game accounts were opened by people in the defendants' circle before the match - and just played on the player receiving a yellow card, combined with a Division 3 team losing.
And this is exactly the division 3 team the rest of the trial was about.
One of the players on the team was a former national team player in futsal, and for him the prosecutor demanded twelve months in prison, because he would have received bribes on six occasions, for the team to lose.
Judgment in two weeks
This player also denies, just like the futsal player who was also accused of involvement in the Allsvenskan match.
The prosecutor also demanded a suspended sentence and a daily fine for that person.
The person also accused of involvement in both the Allsvenskan and Division 3 case denies.
That person was demanded by the prosecutor for 14 months in prison.
They are waiting in two weeks, on June 7.