Premier League players have been accused of fixing matches by a former Police Chief who specializes in match fixing investigations.
According to Fredrik Gardare, a police detective who investigated match fixing in Sweden, a chunk number of players in the Premier League are in bed with match fixers and are manipulating games.
Fredrik Gardare claimed that a phone they sized during a raid on an illegal casino held evidence of multiple Premier League players engaging with a fixer.
He said most of the conversations they discovered on the mobile phone were telegram messages.
Fredrik Gardare ‘s investigations saw former Manchester City midfielder Dickson Etuhu found guilty of attempted match fixing.
He has called on the English Football Association to investigate the matter because the syndicate is manipulating the league.
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Speaking to the Daily Mail, Gardare said that tackling match fixing “is important for both Swedish football and football in several countries. It’s important for England and international football to stop ongoing match-fixing. There was more than one Premier League player (found on the phone).”
“Betting on yellow cards, corners and other aspects in matches. That phone is either sitting with Stockholm police or the national police force. I have worked on hundreds of match-fixing cases, and this was the clearest case you could have,” he added.
Etuhu was handed a five-year ban from football in 2020 after it was ruled that he had tried to fix a game between IFK Gothenburg and AIK in 2017, with the 43-year-old offering AIK goalkeeper Kyriakos Stamatopoulos around £160,000 to underperform.
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