This As part of the Monybet operation in the province of Cádiz, the Civil Guard was liquidated. A criminal organization dedicated to fixing football matches to defraud game operators. In the operation, two leaders and four people were arrested, among them the goalkeeper and defender of a football club.
Moreover, There are 34 people under investigation, six of whom are active professional players in the Third Division. the rest are people who provide their identity to function as money mules.
During the recordings 16,695 Euro cash was found, several cryptocurrency accounts, documents related to bets, and a large amount of cell phone and storage computer material, as the organization is suspected of profiting from more than one million euros in prize money. It is also estimated that more than 30,000 people will be affected by bets made in good faith.
The operation was carried out in February last year through the Civil Guard’s Executive Board of the Conil de la Frontera football team. they were playing to get into the promotion phase, they played an inconsistent end of season, with regard to what was done in the first phase of the season.
The board observed that some players were not acting with the professionalism required by the matches.suspects that they are involved in sports betting.
Initial investigations focused on the data request from the General Directorate of Gambling, which is tasked with controlling all sports bets placed on the territory of the country, as well as the data of all bets on Conil CF in the 2021-2022 season. As bookmakers, taking A list of over 100,000 bets made.
The first thing that caught the attention of researchers was that disproportionate increase in bets placed on matches In this team’s second half of the season, It is also important that the amount of bets placed on these matches is much higher than the rest of the bets on other football matches.
Conil CF bets of 300 euros
The amount of bets placed on the matches of this team was completely disproportionate. Bets on other teams range from 1 to 50 euros. Bets on Conil CF in most cases exceed €300 per bet placed, This is the limit that bookmakers allow Third Division teams to make, so bookies have made repeated bets with this amount several times.
To try to hide their activities, camouflaged “juicy” bets among other predictable bets and without any risk to the First Division matches so that they do not arouse the suspicion of the bettors and they continue to have the account blocked.
Another method was the use of so-called. money mulesi.e. people who lend their bookie IDs for the organization to multiply their benefits, sometimes in exchange for a percentage of the benefits and other times in exchange for privileged information to place their own bets.
With all this information and after reviewing the suspicious partiesUnusual errors can be observed in the professional players of the Third Division, especially in goals conceded against Conil CF.
After the explanations to the team members it was possible to confirm that all doubts were pointing to the goalkeeper and defendernot to ignore the fact that the other two players may also be relatives.
The leaders of the organization that carried out the fraudulent bets were connected with the world of professional football, fulfilling their duties.Sports predictions consultant known as “Tipster”.
These individuals were a former player and a football coach from another Cadiz team, and They bought a goalkeeper and a defender from the Conileño team. reaping great benefits for their actions or inaction.
Coordination of the operation TC Anti-Corruption Prosecutor of the Cádiz Provincial Court coordinated by the Civil Guard in Cádiz and Court No. 3 of Chiclana de la Frontera.