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Dec 6, 2018 · The Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions - more commonly known as the Macolin Convention - aims to prevent, detect and punish match fixing. It was signed today...
Aug 17, 2016 · Whilst it remains to be seen whether more match fixing cases will be detected in coming years it’s clear that match fixing can have devastating criminal and professional consequences on the participants as well as bring the sport into disrepute.
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
Mar 17, 2021 · In the UNCAC framework, “match-fixing” can appear in a form of six corruption criminal offences: active and passive bribery in the public sector (Art. 15–16 of the UNCAC); active and passive trading in influence (Art. 18 of the UNCAC); and active and passive bribery in the private sector (Art. 21 of the UNCAC).
- M. Diaconu, S. Kuwelkar, A. Kuhn
- 2021
Mar 15, 2018 · Overall, this study highlights that match-fixing is not solely instigated by organised crime groups, but can also be incubated within a sport whose culture, management and ethics are not...
Oct 22, 2018 · Match-fixing has a long history, but while use of drugs in sport has a substantial secondary literature, match-fixing has only recently begun to attract the attention of historians.
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Oct 26, 2013 · Lastly, match-fixing is considered as a crime. In this context match-fixing is often compared to doping, noting that the “fight” against doping Footnote 18 seemed to be effective with the help of criminal law measures and an analogous fight is recommended in the case of match-fixing.