Unregulated betting operators are using data from Sportradar, the same company tasked with protecting Brazilian football from match-fixing. The Brazilian Government has called for Federal Police to open an inquiry into fixed in-play events in Brazilian football.
By Andy Brown and Jack Kerr
If you planned to earn money from fixing football matches, how would you do it? Would you pay a team of players to lose a game and if so, in which division? What if it were possible to pay a single player to get booked or concede a penalty in a lower division game?
In-play betting means that not only can you bet on whether there will be a booking or penalty in a game, you can also bet on which period within the game it will happen. In some countries, such in-play bets are possible not only in the top division of football, but all the way down the divisions to the amateur level.
Having paid a player to get booked, would you place your bets with a regulated operator which is required to report suspicious events to regulators? Or would you use a poorly regulated operator which has no such reporting requirements?
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The Brazilian government has asked the federal police to investigate, after prosecutors in the Goiás region of Brazil reported 16 people for manipulating 13 matches last year.
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