Match-fixing trial kicks off

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November 8th, 2012

Today marked the beginning of a trial in Switzerland involving one of the biggest match-fixing scandals in European football history.

In November 2009, the news broke that investigators working for the public prosecutors’ office in the German city of Bochum had identified 200 matches in nine European countries – Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey – where manipulation was believed to have taken place. (Swiss Info)