Once again, Colombian football looks back, thanks to the evidence provided by the prosecution investigators, the latter has already identified again the first football matches that tried to be altered.
The documented facts in the power of the prosecution began dating from the second half of 2016, in tournaments mainly the divisions of Colombian football of the first A and the first. Among the tests are facts such as, for example, that a player of Deportivo Pasto would have offered a millionaire sum of money in exchange for that benefit to Cali America in a game scheduled in the first division of Professional Football Colombian (FPC). (READ SO: COLOMBIAN FORMER PROSECUTOR CONVICTED FOR COMPLICITY WITH ILLEGAL BETTING PORTAL PIJAO SPORTS)
As for facts with the first B there is also record of the meeting between the Bogota Football Club and the Barranquilla Football Club for the promotion tournament.
In view of the serious facts that were brought to the attention of the Dimayor, the Prosecutor's Office, which has already appointed two prosecutors specializing in anti-corruption in the case, who will call soon to declare the three players and ex-players that are involved in the events.
"The players were tempted with money, but they did not receive it ... We learned from the same club presidents who informed Dimayor what was happening, started the investigation, documented the case and once with the corresponding evidence collection We deliver to the attorney general, "said Jorge Perdomo, president of Dimayor.
He also said that the players involved in this scandal said they offered each of them between 20 and 30 million pesos (around usd20k ) to try to rig several of the matches in the professional tournament. (READ SO: COLOMBIAN FOOTBALL: "THERE ARE GAMES ARRANGED TO FAVOR BETS ONLINE")
Perdomo also assures that bookmakers from Asia and England and other illegal gamblers would be the main benefactors of these events, and are the ones who are contacting players and referees to square results of football matches.
"What we find in the practice of betting is that they are offering players to have a yellow card in the first five minutes or at first part of the match eleven corner shots. They are varied bets and not only reduce to a general result, "said Perdomo.
By direct instruction of the attorney general, Néstor Humberto Martínez, it is expected that the first substantive decisions will be made in this case no later than one month.
