Argentina’s justice system has opened an investigation into potential match-fixing in a Copa Argentina match earlier this month, as reported by Reuters
Argentina’s justice system has opened an investigation into potentiality match-fixing inwards a Copa Argentine Republic twin earliest this month, as reported past Reuters.
The lucifer inward interrogative sentence is Boca Juniors’ Round of 16 encounter with Agropecuario on 11 August, inward which Agropecuario player John Milton Leyendeker was ruby-red carded eighter from Decatur minutes into the game.
Prompted past local media reports, Prosecutor Celsa Ramirez is currently investigating whether or non on that point were any bets on a participant from the nursing home team to follow cherry carded before the 10-minute mark.
“We want to ensure if on that point is any truth inward the media reports,” said a seed from the Prosecutor's office, adding that such bets are illegal.
Leyendeker has, however, denied that his carmine scorecard was deliberate, saying: “Am I sledding to allow my team up with I less, playing against Boca, in a spunky that everyone wants to play?
“Something the likes of this had never happened to me.”
Leyendeker’s red scorecard had farther implications, with his gainsay on Exequiel Zeballos resulting inwards the latter requiring surgery on his ankle. Boca won the agree at Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena 1-0, and moved into the Copa Argentina quarter-finals with the victory.
The potency match-fixing in football follows lowest month’s match-fixing offence inwards tennis, when Dutch tutor Max Wenders was handed a 12-year ban from the athletics past the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after admitting multiple match-fixing charges.
Wenders also admitted to destroying grounds requested past the ITIA (then the Tennis Integrity Unit) and flunk to write up a misdirect approach.