The goalkeeper and a defender of a Third team, arrested for fixing matches in a plot that came to pocket more than a million euros

During the searches carried out, they have located €16,695 in cashseveral accounts of cryptocurrenciesbetting-related documentation and a large amount of mobile telephony and storage computer equipment.

The organization would have obtained benefits in prizes greater than million euros. In addition, it is estimated that there would be more than 30,000 people affected for bets made in good faith.

The operation began in February of last year when the Civil Guard learned through the Board of Directors of the soccer team of Conil de la Frontera, that his team, which was playing to enter the promotion phase, had played a season finale that was inconsistent with what was done during the first phase of the season. The board had observed that some players were not acting with the professionalism that the matches requiredsuspecting that they were involved with sports betting.

The first investigations focused on requesting data from the General Directorate of Gamblingthe body in charge of the control of all sports bets made in the national territory, of the data of all the bets made to the Conil CF during the 2021-2022 season, as well as bettors, receiving a list of more than 100,000 bets placed.

The first thing that caught the attention of the researchers was the disproportionate increase in the bets placed on the matches of this team during the second phase of the season, and it is also significant that the amount bet on those matches was much higher than the rest of the bets placed. to other football matches.

He imported bet on the matches of this team was ttotally disproportionate. While the bets placed on other teams were between 1 and 50 euros, the bets placed on Conil CF exceeded, on most occasions, €300 per bet placed, this being the limit that bookmakers allow teams to place. of Third divisionwhich is why bettors made several repeated bets with this amount.

To try to hide their activities, they camouflaged the “juicy” bets among other predictable bets and without any risk for matches of First division and thus not arouse the suspicions of the bookmakers and that they proceed with the blocking of the account.

money mules

Another method was the use of so-called money mulesthat is, people who lent their identity as bettors so that the organization could multiply its benefits, sometimes in exchange for a percentage of the benefits and other times in exchange for privileged information to place their own bets.

With all this information and after viewing the suspicious parties, it was possible to observe uncommon mistakes in professional players of the Third Division, especially in the goals conceded against Conil CF After the statements made to the team’s squad, it was possible to verify that all suspicions pointed to the goalkeeper and a defender, not ruling out that two other players could also be related.

The leaders of the organization that carried out the fraudulent bets They were linked to the world of professional football, performing sports forecasting advisor work, known as tipster. These people were a former player from another team from Cádiz and a soccer coach and they had bought the goalkeeper and a defender from the Conileño team, who received great benefits for their actions or inactions. The operation has been coordinated by the Civil Guard in Cadiz and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor of the Provincial Court of Cádizcoordinated by the Court number 3 of Chiclana de la Frontera.

Conil CF statement

For its part, the Cádiz club wanted to show its position in the face of these serious events through a statement on its Facebook profile, in which it states that it “condemns and rejects all kinds of acts that are related to this type of behavior that dirty, harm and stain the image of a historic club like ours and the world of football in general”, lamenting that “the shield and the name of our Club and what they represent with so many years of history, are involved in this type of plot and tricks».

In this same statement, the representatives of the club announce that “Conil CF, as the injured party, will appear as a private prosecution and claim for damages”, finally demanding that “respect be observed for the presumption of innocence that is often steals from people and institutions with a certain public relevance.”