Players from Moldova’s Football Super League and former members of a Moldovan football team are investigated for fixing matches in order to earn money from bets. The law enforcement agencies carried out searches at the sports complex of the football team, at the domiciles and in the cars of suspects, seizing money and objects, IPN reports.

The General Police Inspectorate said the criminal group consisted of seven members aged between 30 and 50. They fixed matches, persuading people to bet on official websites from which the money was later transferred from the accounts of companies from Gibraltar to the accounts of companies registered in an IT park in Moldova, which legalized the ill-gotten gains as salaries. The money was later distributed according to the roles played in the criminal scheme.

The suspects face a fine of at most 267,500 lei or two to six years in jail, in both of the cases with ban on occupying particular posts or performing a particular activity during a period of four to seven years.