Bosnian Police Arrest 12 in Football Match-fixing Case

Bosnian police have arrested 12 people, mostly referees, suspected of match-fixing in the Balkan country’s second division.

The investigation is targeting officials and regional football association executives, the prosecutors added in a statement.

They are “suspected of demanding and receiving, during 2019, gifts and other forms of benefits, to fix the results of certain matches” played in Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat half, the statement said.

“Within this operation we arrested twelve people, suspected of organised crime and abuse of power,” a police spokesman told.

Homes of several suspects were searched in the north-eastern towns of Samac and Orasje and in Novi Travnik, in central Bosnia, spokesman Luka Miladinovic added.