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Man arrested in Swedish football match-fixing investigation

28th April 2014 8:22 am GMT

Swedish regulator the Lotteriinspektionen has confirmed that a 23 year-old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into attempted match-fixing in the country’s second-highest football league.

The unnamed man, understood to be a former footballer, has been arrested following allegations that he attempted to bribe players of Superettan team IFK Värnamo to fix a match against Göteborgs Atlet- och Idrottssällskap (GAIS) last year.

It is the first arrest to have been made in the investigation, which was [...]

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