5 Jul, 2022 @ 11:02
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Match fixers who targeted Spanish and Gibraltar football leagues arrested

A man betting on sports online

POLICE have busted a football match-fixing ring that operated in Spain and Gibraltar.

Investigators say the network had made more than €500,000, mostly on illicit gambling linked to Spain’s Third Division. Although links to Gibraltar’s National League have been made by Interpol, no information to say how widespread the practice was has been given.

Authorities arrested 21 people and another six are under investigation for organised crime, corruption and defrauding gambling operators.

A man betting on sports online

They also seized €60,000 in cash, two vehicles, smartphones and computer equipment during Operation Conifera.

Investigators say that the gang relied on two ‘leaders’ who had close connections to professional football.

They approached football players who provided confidential information in order to influence matches.

Information gained would then be used by ‘procurers’ who provided identities for online gambling and mules to place sports bets and collect prize money.

Members of the network were careful to use encrypted communications, a mix of in-person and online betting, and placing bets in instalments in order to avoid police detection.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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