Wager and anger: supporters of Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
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One of the biggest betting scandals in football is emerging in Brazil. The judiciary is investigating players and the betting mafia, the first professionals have already been banned. It’s about bought red cards and penalties.
NThere is still a great, dark veil over what could become one of the biggest betting scandals in Brazilian football – and beyond. If the information provided by the Brazilian media is correct, the judiciary is currently investigating 35 people, including well over two dozen players, who are accused of manipulating football games in order to rake in high betting profits. You have already been banned.
The threads of the investigation are currently coming together at the public prosecutor’s office in the provincial capital of Gois. There, the investigators believe they found out how the fraud system was organized. The masterminds around Bruno L. are said to have won players for intentionally provoking a yellow or red card, a penalty or substitutions in a game, for example, because large sums of money can be collected for a correct betting forecast for these individual events.
