The Fixed Match: Betting, Organized Crime, and the Quiet War Against Match-Fixing
Miguel Muñoz
M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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In 2013, Europol announced what remains one of the largest football investigations in history: roughly 380 suspicious matches across more than a dozen countries, tied to a betting syndicate that treated a stadium in Europe and a bookmaker's ledger in Asia as parts of the same transaction. The Fixed Match traces how a sport built on unscripted drama became entangled with a global wagering market worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and how three different crimes, fixing a result outright, rigging a single bettable detail inside an honest game, and trading on information that never touches the pitch, came to share one uneasy name. It follows convicted fixer Wilson Raj Perumal and the syndicate investigators built around him, the German prosecution that broke the case open in Bochum, and the referees, players, and agents who found themselves targeted by networks most of them refused to join. It also follows the response: betting-fraud detection systems, integrity units inside FIFA and UEFA, and the first international treaty written for a crime no single country's police could contain alone. Careful to separate proven fact from mere suspicion, this book asks what happens to a sport's appeal once its audience can no longer be certain both sides are trying to win.
In 2013, Europol announced what remains one of the largest football investigations in history: roughly 380 suspicious matches across more than a dozen countries, tied to a betting syndicate that treated a stadium in Europe and a bookmaker's ledger in Asia as parts of the same transaction. The Fix...
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