According to the investigation, Yavor and Bogdan shared contacts, information, and infrastructure to place bets and launder the profits they obtained. Yavor specialized in tennis and table tennis matches.
There are also other Spaniards detained. One woman named Marta stands out who worked at Luckia and who allegedly received payment from the group for turning a blind eye to tickets that in other circumstances would have set off alarms.
Juan Gayá Salom is one of Europe's leading sports betting handicappers or handicappers. It has 220,000 followers on Telegram and another 83,500 on X (before Twitter), and according to the business model, if someone wanted to get accurate predictions, they had to pay a fee for it.
The rest of the nationals involved allegedly provided identities to place bets and open accounts to launder money.
Innovative technological system,
The criminal organization had a novel and very sophisticated technological system, with proven results both nationally and internationally, based on satellite technology and the capture of “feed” content. In this way, the members of the group accessed the live signal from the playing fields around the world and managed to get ahead of the signal that the betting houses received from the same event, which was used by the criminal organization. to place winning bets with the certainty of being ahead of the signal that reached the betting houses and thus defraud them. They also had other systems, much less sophisticated but which generated considerable profits, since they allowed them to anticipate the signal received by the betting houses and thus bet safely.
This modus operandi was mainly used in Asian and South American soccer leagues, UEFA Nations League, Bundesliga, Qatar 2022 World Cup and ATP and ITF tennis tournaments.
The members of the group fixed matches by predetermining results in different sports competitions, mainly outside Spain, the Ministry of the Interior indicates in a press release.
The group had a novel technological system through which they accessed the live signal from juice lands around the world and managed to get ahead of the signal received by the betting houses, thus managing to scam them. 23 people have been arrested, including the leader and the “trader” of a major betting house, which oversaw validating online bets made by the criminal network.
The members of the organization fixed matches by predetermining results in different competitions and sports specialties, mainly held outside the national territory. Once the result or any other circumstance was agreed, they placed the bet online en masse from Spain.
The group obtained economic benefits in two ways. The main person in charge of the organization had corrupted several footballers from different teams in Romania, with whom he managed the match-fixing. In addition, the leader of the group provided information about the fixes to other fixers, with the aim of allowing them to use privileged information for their own benefit. This fact allowed him to receive information about fraud orchestrated by other criminal organizations dedicated to the commission of crimes of the same nature.
