SvFF: "Very satisfied with the outcome"

In September, the Swedish Football Association chose to suspend Pawel Cibicki from all Swedish sports for four years, before the case had been tried in court.

Something the 27-year-old was critical of.

In connection with the Court of Appeal's ruling, the association gives its view on the decision.

- This is because sports have their own regulations in addition to general legislation, which means that the offenses you can be convicted of look different.

The evidentiary requirements can also look different.

Then our disciplinary committee did a trial after the district court ruling where it was thought that the circumstance and the case were sufficiently settled to be judged there, says Christine Stridsberg, who is a lawyer at the Swedish Football Association.

- It is always a trade-off to wait for final judgments from the judiciary that can take a few years, as opposed to dealing with this urgently out of respect for everyone involved.

Christine Stridsberg is satisfied with the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

- It is a case that we put a lot of time and energy into, the police and prosecutors have done the same.

We are, of course, very pleased that there will be a conviction in the end.

We have in recent years put a lot of resources into curbing it and now we see good results from it.

But there is still theft.

Stridsberg thinks that such types of games, similar to what Pawel Cibicki was convicted of, can attract match-fixing.

- This is something we have been critical of for a long time.

Partly that you can play at very low series levels and also that you could play on yellow cards, red cards and corners.

Things that are very easy to manipulate in terms of manipulating an entire match result.

Now the gaming inspectorate has tightened those rules after a lot of hard work on our part.

- Now it is more difficult than it was at those times.

We view this very positively.

But it is still possible to play in Swedish leagues from abroad, Asia in particular, which is a big problem, says Stridsberg.

- It is of course very difficult for Swedish legislation and Swedish authorities to access what is happening in other countries.

It is limited.

A much greater international cooperation is required than is the case today.

But we see that the restrictions made by the Swedish market today make it more difficult, says Christine Stridsberg to SVT.