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Out-of-date food seized Police uncover match fixing
ny, 19 other establishments were inspected throughout Spain, where SEPRONA (Nature Protection Service, a division of the Guardia Civil) found irregularities.
In total, the officers seized 18,196 kilos of products unfit for human consumption.
A JOINT investigation involving the National Police, LaLiga and Europol, has uncovered a criminal organisation specialising in matchfixing.
A report from the National Police on Thursday, July 27 revealed how they investigated a criminal organisation dedicated to matchfixing within the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).
Together with LaLiga and Europol, officers of the National Police arrested a total of 17 people. In Melilla, 11 suspects were detained and six in Granada.
Among those arrested were officials and players of a third division RFEF football team, for allegedly committing the crimes of belonging to a criminal organisation, corruption between private individuals in the field of sport, fraud, money laundering and false documentation.
The investigation began last February when the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling, informed officers of several alerts re ceived from different online gambling platforms. Multiple bets had been placed from Melilla on specific results of football matches played by a team from the city.
Simultaneously, LaLiga reported an anonymous communication received through its whistleblower channel, in which they reported suspicious practices of the same football team.
Investigators soon uncovered a complex criminal network, showing that the president of the team himself, managed the rigging, by involving players he trusted. The players also used third parties to place the bets and thus avoid being linked to the bets placed and the matches played.
Police investigations also showed that the same sports club has been the beneficiary of subsidies which were used fraudulently to increase the amounts to be collected.
Seven football matches are still being investigated and further arrests have not been ruled out, and the total amount swindled from the bookmakers cannot yet be quantified.
ONE of Spain’s most iconic birds of prey, the Iberian Imperial Eagle is at risk of extinction due to the water shortage.
Also known as the Spanish Imperial Eagle, its survival could be at risk due to a lack of water in the protected Doñana area in Andalucia, according to a news source on Wednesday, July 26.
The large raptor is exclusive to the Iberian Peninsula and only lives and breeds in Spanish and Portuguese territory. But SEO/BirdLife has warned that the water shortage Doñana is currently undergoing is bringing one of the national park’s most
