Madrid: Spanish police arrested 34 people suspected of roles in a criminal betting organisation that fixed tennis matches in tournaments in Spain and Portugal.
The arrests, the result of an investigation that began in 2014, took place across several Spanish cities. The network paid bribes to players to get them to throw matches, using as an intermediary a former tennis player who knew the players involved. The matches, mostly in Spain, were part of the Futures and Challenger circuits, lower tiers of the men's pro tour.
Six tennis players and two people believed to have led the match-fixing network were among those arrested in Seville, the capital of the southern region of Andalusia, and A Coru??a, in northwestern Spain.
The Spanish police did not name the players or other detainees. A police official said, "These aren't well-known players," and put them between 800 and 1,200 in the world rankings.
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