Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Sounds Alarm Over Soccer Betting
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European soccer is at high risk from match-fixing mobsters seeking to “load the dice” in an illegal gambling business valued at $90 billion a year, Sicily’s chief anti-Mafia prosecutor said.
“The entire football business is at a high risk of infiltration by the Mafia,” Antonio Ingroia told Bloomberg Television in an interview in the Sicilian capital, Palermo. Italy’s mob has pressured Italian “clubs in ticket selling and gangs have been operating in the ticket-selling black market,” which is often “tolerated by football clubs.”