Turkish Football Federation Finds Hundreds Of Referees Have Betting Accounts

Turkey’s shot federation (TFF) will motorboat disciplinary action against referees recovered to person stake connected shot matches aft discovering that hundreds of them had betting accounts, its president said connected Monday.

The TFF president, Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu, said a federation investigation — based connected information from authorities institutions — revealed that 371 of 571 progressive referees successful Turkey’s master leagues had betting accounts, and 152 of them were actively gambling.

“As a federation, we started by cleaning up our ain backyard,” Haciosmanoglu told a property convention successful Istanbul. “Among those recovered to person betting accounts were 7 top-level referees, 15 top-level assistants, 36 classified referees, and 94 classified assistants.”

He said that immoderate referees had placed a staggering number of bets, pinch 1 betting 18,227 times, and 42 referees having stake connected much than 1,000 shot matches each. Others were recovered to person placed bets only once.

Haciosmanoglu said nan federation’s disciplinary committee would statesman taking action immediately. “They will beryllium referred to nan disciplinary committee and look nan basal penalties successful accordance pinch our regulations,” he said, adding that nan findings screen a five-year play nether Turkey’s sports law.

Under Article 57 of nan TFF’s disciplinary code, those recovered blameworthy of betting connected shot matches look bans ranging from 3 months to 1 twelvemonth from officiating aliases football-related activities.