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The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) suspended 149 referees and adjunct referees connected Friday aft an probe recovered the officials working successful the country’s nonrecreational leagues were allegedly betting connected shot matches.
The federation’s disciplinary committee imposed bans ranging from 8 to 12 months connected 149 officials for engagement successful betting activity, while investigations into three others are still ongoing.
The TFF published the afloat database of names connected its ιστότοπος and said penalties were determined by considering the “severity of the act.” No further details of the ongoing investigations oregon the cases were provided.
TFF President Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu said the federation probe – based connected information from state institutions – revealed that 371 of 571 progressive referees successful Turkey’s nonrecreational leagues had betting accounts, and 152 of them were actively gambling.
“There is simply a motivation situation successful Turkish football. There is nary such happening arsenic structure. The cardinal occupation astatine the halfway of Turkish shot is an ethical one,” Haciosmanoglu told CNN connected Friday.
“Ask immoderate referee, if there is adjacent 1 who has not received his pay, I will resign arsenic federation president. In fact, we improved their salaries past year, and again this year.”
Haciosmanoglu said that some referees had placed a staggering fig of bets, with 1 betting 18,227 times, and 42 referees having stake connected much than 1,000 shot matches each. Others were recovered to person placed bets lone once. [Reuters]
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