The latest scandal involving match fixing in European soccer involves "allegations out of Germany [of] criminals supplying sedatives to team doctors and officials to be used to affect players and the outcome of games" as reported by Chris Young for The Toronto Star:
The lawyer for a man accused of kidnapping and fraud in connection with nearly $1.6 million (all figures U.S.) in manipulated soccer bets said that prosecutors believe his client's gang did not shy from "locking up people in basements" or "sedating players" via drugs given to team doctors and hotel cooks. "According to prosecutors, they were extremely violent," Burkhard Benecken, lawyer for a man identified as Deniz C., told the Associated Press. * * * [P]rosecutors believe a network of about 200 people are suspected of being involved, with the ringleaders believed to have profited by at least $15 million, AP reports. * * * German investigators have said that 200 European games are under scrutiny, along with five clubs in Albania and Latvia and nine countries named by German authorities. Few details have been released, but prosecutors have said 15 people have been arrested in Germany and two in Switzerland.
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