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FIFA appoints new betting and match-fixing tsar

5th March 2012 10:59 am GMT

Football’s world governing body FIFA has announced that top German police chief Ralf Mutschke will become the organisation’s new Director of Security from the start of June.

Although his security responsibilities will be wide-ranging, Mutschke states that “the main issue will be the integrity of FIFA competitions. The focus here will be on match-fixing, betting fraud and corruption.”

The news received a qualified welcome from the European Sports Security Association (ESSA), the licensed betting industry’s [...]

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