England's Rugby Football Union (RFU) has joined forces with international sports betting integrity body ESSA to protect its competitions from the threat of match-fixing.
Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two parties, ESSA will use its monitoring and alert system to detect suspicious betting patterns on RFU matches across its members’ regulated betting markets.
“No one can or should be complacent in the face of criminal elements intent on corrupting any sport to [...]
