Finland rocked by match-fixing
05/21/2011 07:18:27 AM
Nine former footballers in Finland will be charged with accepting bribes in a court case that begins in June.
Maija Mononen, a district prosecutor from the Lapland Prosecutor's Office, revealed the nine former players, who all played for Rovaniemen Palloseura, will face court.
But Mononen refused to name the players or give further details on the case, insisting all will be revealed in court.
It follows another match-fixing scandal in Finland, with AC Oulo's Zambian brothers Donewell and Dominic Yobe confessing to playing a match 'below their normal level' during a 5-0 defeat to TPS.
The pair were both found guilty of taking 43,000 British pounds to influence the match.
In a bigger match-fixing investigation in Germany, Ante Sapina was hit with five-and-a-half years in prison after admitting he fixed the outcome of more than 20 fixtures.
Sapina fixed a World Cup qualifying game and several matches in European club competitions and was given the sentence in German court on Thursday.