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BBC Sport · Jan 10, 2019

Spain arrests players in match-fixing investigation

Law enforcement officials in Spain have arrested 28 professional tennis players in an investigation into match-fixing.

EU police agency Europol said the players were among 83 people detained by Spain's Civil Guard.

"The suspects bribed professional players to guarantee predetermined results and used the identities of thousands of citizens to bet on the pre-arranged games," Europol said.

At least 97 ITF Futures and Challenger matches were fixed, it said.

The arrests, which included one player who appeared at last year's US Open, follow an investigation into match-fixing by an organised Armenian criminal gang.

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