Fraudulent bets: the top of the iceberg
It was already doing time that he wanted to write on this matter, and today the actuality has offered to me an opportunity. In a post of May, 2007, he was knowing by intuition the potential danger of the bets on the soccer and on the sport in general. With the heyday of the bets for Internet, there has spread of exponential form a practice that often leaves dangerous legal hollows and temptations to the fraud.
Today a representative of the UEFA has given the first information of a large-scale intervention in a big parties plot fiddled (approximately 200), which it affects to different leagues in his different divisions and there are even investigated some parties of Champions and of the Europe League.
The same fiscal Andreas Bachmann who takes this case, aims that it is only the “top of the iceberg”. It was of waiting: it is a phenomenon that has grown without the control mechanisms, both on the part of the justice of the countries where this practice was not established and on the part of the sports organisms, it having done it equally, at least seemingly. Perhaps the magnitude of this operation indicates that some countries yes have done the duties. No party of the Spanish leagues seems affected: are we more legal than anybody or we have not investigated the sufficient thing, or worse, estña allowing?
Nowadays we can bet to practically quite, even in sports and categories which participants might have much more than to win in the sector of the bets than in his sports discipline. It is of waiting, after more details are known on this intervention of the UEFA, that the related organisms should react and should fit of some form the control on these risks. And the fact is that for the fans it is going to be a really sad descubir, beyond the simple suspicion, that we attend fiddled ties, prepared goals, or decisions arbirales coerced by particular economic interests.
