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May
BETTING SCANDAL
Electric New Paper - Singapore - May 23, 2006
On a larger scale, soccer's world governing body Fifa has been
forced to set up a new company to detect suspect betting patterns
in response to a betting scandal that broke in Germany last year.
In Germany, referee Robert Hoyzer was found guilty of fixing matches
in a 2 million euro ($4m) betting fraud case that has embarrassed
Football World Cup hosts Germany.
But Vaughan Williams said the game was now more transparent than
ever before.
'Everything you do now is monitored,' he said.
'They know where you bet, how much you bet. Before, when it was
just in a shop, it could never be controlled.
'(Cheating) was there before, you just didn't know about it.'
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