"UEFA will be demanding the harshest of sanctions before the competent courts for any individuals, clubs or officials who are implicated in this malpractice, be it under state or sports jurisdiction."
[2] The investigation centres on around 200 fixtures, including domestic league games in nine European countries: Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria.
[1] Peter Limacher, a spokesman for European football's governing body UEFA, described it as "the biggest match-fixing scandal ever to hit Europe.
[6] According to information from the Bochum prosecutor's office on 20 November 2009, at least 200 football matches had been manipulated in nine European countries since the beginning of 2009.
Two Croatian brothers, Ante and Milan Sapina, were arrested on 19 November 2009 and charged with fraud, involving the betting on manipulated games in Asia through the provider.
The UEFA European Football Association suspended Ukrainian referee Oleg Orijechow in connection with the betting scandal.
[9] UEFA president Michel Platini revealed that his organisation was stepping up their efforts to eradicate match fixing in the game, and that 27,000 fixtures would be monitored in the 2009–10 season.
[4] The fraud was discovered through telephone tapping of organised crime activities and has been investigated by the Prosecutorial Office at Bochum, Germany.
[15] On 27 November 2009, the club announced the denunciation of the Croatian players Davor Kraljević, Marijo Marinović and Dinko Radojević in association with the match-fixing scandal.
[16] On 24 November 2009, Regionalliga club SC Verl suspended midfielders Patrick Neumann and Tim Hagedorn from games and training.
[17] On 28 November 2009, Neumann admitted to Bochum prosecutor's office that he received 500€, making him the first professional to sign a confession in the match-fixing scandal.
[18] Marcel Schuon confirmed to the Bochum prosecutor's office that during his time at VfL Osnabrück, manipulation took place in a 3–0 defeat to FC Augsburg on 17 April 2009 in the 2.
Liga team SV Sandhausen, where he was removed at the end of November 2009 due to his involvement in the match-fixing scandal.
The Thun striker Pape Omar Faye was interrogated by the police, the week before the trophy game against Winterthur (22 November 2009) and then suspended by the club.
Gossau’s midfielder, Mario Bigoni, publicly stated that a previous season's game was "not clean" and that he had received a bid from a fellow player.
The Chinese police arrested a total of sixteen people, including twelve club members and four high-ranking football officials, including the former vice president of the Chinese Football Association, Yang Xu, on 25 November 2009, in the wake of the international inquiries of the betting scandal.