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Handball: referees present at the World Cup suspected of having fixed matches in 2016 and 2017

2023-01-15T16:33:40.163Z


A Danish media reports having consulted a report implicating 26 Champions League matches and eight pairs of referees, including two


Bad publicity which the world of handball would have done well.

Just days after the start of the 2023 men's world championship, jointly organized by Poland and Sweden, a Danish television channel reports having consulted a report issued in 2018 by an analysis company.

It involves 26 matches, some of which count for the Champions League, and involves 8 pairs of referees, two of whom currently officiate at the World Cup.

Their decisions would have been made in order to promote online betting.

Sportradar, a Swiss-based company recognized as a world leader in match-fixing detection, investigated extensively, "raising as many clear and concrete red flags" over 26 matches from September 2016 to November 2017. It s It turns out that during these matches, suspicious extraordinary amounts were committed on bets, noticed by a total of seven specialized sites.

That money would have been placed on low scores or half-time ties.

Among these matches would be several leading teams on the international board, such as the Germans Kiel and Flensburg, the Polish Kielce, the Hungarian clubs Veszprem and Györ, as well as the H of Nantes, at the time (in November 2016) opposed at Dinamo Bucharest.

The two pairs of referees are Croatian (MM Matija Gubica and Boris Milosevic, referees of the last Germany-Qatar and two of the last three Champions League finals) and Macedonian (MM. Gjorgij Nachevski and Slave Nikolov, referees of Bahrain-Tunisia ).

TV 2 has asked six experts to analyze some of the offending matches and points out that in many of these matches several decisions are in line with the Sportradar report.

The latter recognizes that his report is not proof of match-fixing and therefore recommended that the European Handball Federation transmit the available documentation to the competent authorities, so that several investigations can be launched immediately.

In a press release published on its website this Sunday, the EHF replies that to date, “the police investigations have yielded no results and the speculations have remained unproven following the investigation.

The EHF's own analyzes of the matches in question from a sporting point of view at the time did not provide any evidence which would have justified the initiation of legal proceedings.

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Regarding the referees, the latter “are not suspended because neither on the side of the police nor on the side of the EHF substantial reasons for such measures have been established.

The EHF has a zero tolerance approach when it comes to any kind of match fixing or undue influence on the match outcome.

Match-fixing is not acceptable in any sport and, at EHF competition level, is a material breach of the European Handball Federation's core values, statutes and regulations.

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Source: leparis

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