Brussels: Belgium has detained 13 people in raids over an investigation into suspected match-fixing in the lower ranks of professional tennis, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. A criminal organisation with ties to Belgium and Armenia has been bribing professional tennis players since 2014 to fix matches, letting the criminals to rake in profits by placing bets, the prosecutors said. The fixed matches were usually in lower-ranked, rarely televised tournaments such as the Futures and Challenger circuits, where it was easier to bribe players, prosecutors said. A judge would decide at a later stage whether those detained would be formally arrested, prosecutors added. There was also some evidence of issues at elite events like Grand Slams, but this was not seemingly a "widespread problem", the report said.

Source: The Telegraph June 05, 2018 21:11 UTC