The ex-Allsvenskan football player is in the hall when the trial in the Court of Appeal ends on Wednesday afternoon.

He was acquitted of bribery and gambling in the district court in early June.

The prosecutors claim that the player deliberately took a yellow card in an Allsvenskan match in the spring of 2019 in return for a loan of SEK 300,000, but the district court considered that there was no evidence of a conviction.

"No big impact"

In the Court of Appeal, the prosecution emphasizes that the elite player was in great need of borrowing money because he had an extensive gambling addiction.

Then it was not a big step to take a warning as a consideration for a loan, the prosecutors believe.

- It does not mean a big impact on either the match or for himself in that situation, says Staffan Edlund, one of two prosecutors in the case, about the yellow card.

Since this is an individual incident, the prosecutors do not demand imprisonment for the elite player, but that the penalty should be a conditional sentence and a daily fine.

- It has admittedly been an all-Swedish match, but it was a minor manipulation on one occasion, says Staffan Edlund.

The prosecution believes that there is evidence that this is an agreement, but the defense believes that this is a regular loan without a requirement for any form of consideration.

This is the fifth match-fixing scandal that has reached a Swedish court and all have been appealed to the Court of Appeal.

In three of the cases, there has been a conviction in the higher instance - in one of the cases, the Court of Appeal has acquitted.

The football professional has earned a lot of money during his career and has made a living from football for about ten years.

He has previously stated that he has no savings in the bank - everything must have disappeared due to gambling addiction.

- I can openly say that I have had an addiction.

It's not something I'm proud of, but it's true.

If you have lost so much money, it must be seen as an addiction, he said during the trial in the district court.

Suspended worldwide

Now he can not play football at all.

He has been suspended from all sports in the whole world since mid-February and despite the acquittal in the district court, the Swedish Football Association sentenced him to four years' suspension in Sweden.

The football player, who has belonged to a foreign club since January 2020, has appealed that decision to the National Sports Board.

The global suspension decision from the International Football Association (Fifa) is still in force.

A co-accused 34-year-old was also acquitted by the district court of the accusation of gambling fraud and having bribed the elite player.

A 31-year-old suspected match-fixer was acquitted in the prosecution regarding the yellow card, but received a suspended sentence for game cheating and for bribing a 35-year-old goalkeeper in the Division 3 team Kvarnby.

The goalkeeper was sentenced for having received a total of around SEK 45,000 for manipulating six Division 3 matches in the 2019 season.

Watch SVT's documentary "Kvarnbyfallet" on SVT Play.