Mafia focus in match-fixing probe

Charges include criminal association aimed at sports fraud, with some linked to Mafia organisations – in particular to the ’ndrangheta organised crime syndicate.

More than 50 people have been arrested or detained throughout Italy and more than 70 placed under investigation as part of a widespread match-fixing inquiry led by anti-Mafia prosecutors in the southern town of Catanzaro.

The sweep involves “dozens” of fixed matches in Italian football’s third and fourth division, police said.