Match-fixing could be punished by imprisonment from 6 months to 4 years, and influence peddling in sports by fines of up to 30,000 lei or prison terms of up to 7 years, under two bills introducing criminal liability for sporting fraud that were approved on Wednesday by Parliament's Legal Commission. The bills are proposed by a group of MPs and the National Anticorruption Center. The authors analyzed the proposals and decided to merge the bills into one before submitting it for a second debate in Parliament. The bill also criminalizes illegal betting, which will be punishable by fines from 40,000 to 80,000 lei or up to 8 years in prison. If adopted into law, 6 months after its publication, coaches, managers, players and other persons involved in match-fixing and other frauds in sports competitions will face not just fines and prison terms, but also bans from managerial positions in sport organizations for periods of up to 5 years. Anticorruption agencies are now investigating the activity of 13 football clubs on suspicion that as many as 48 matches were fixed in the period between April 2011 and May 2012. The suspects include 23 players from 8 football clubs who allegedly bet on both their own games and other matches in Divizia Nationala, the highest league competition in Moldovan football.