STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a player over
match-fixing
in Sweden's top football league.
The Prosecution Authority did not name the player but said that at the time of the crime he played for
IF Elfsborg
, a club in Sweden's top league
Allsvenskan
.
The case revolved around a game played in May 2019 when the player was handed a yellow card.
"Shortly after the game, the player was given a loan for a large sum of money from people who had placed a bet on him receiving a warning in that game," prosecutor
Staffan Edlund
said in a statement.
The player, who has since left the team, was charged with taking a bribe and two other people were charged with paying a bribe, and both were charged with breaking Sweden's gambling law.
The Prosecution Authority also said it was charging a player in one of the country's lower leagues over taking bribes for six games that the player's team had lost.
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