International criminal police organisation Interpol has opted to end the use of funds provided by Fifa due to an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at football’s global governing body. As reported by iGaming Business, Interpol in 2011 entered into a partnership with Fifa as part of a joint effort to combat corruption in sport. Under the agreement, Fifa provided a donation of €20m ($22.4m) to enable the creation of a 10-year ‘Integrity in Sport’ programme. The initiative was designed to help Interpol’s various member countries around the world prevent the manipulation of sporting events and illegal gambling by criminal groups….

Aljazeera – The man in the dark green shirt and matching scarf, stood, statuesque, on Stevenage Road, in the upper-middle-class district of Fulham in west London. Some other fans, in Scottish kilts, stopped to take his picture. He wanted to be noticed, because he held a placard in front of his chest with words written in red ink across it: “We don’t fix matches, we WIN them.” Across the road, at Fulham’s Craven Cottage stadium, the placard bearer’s beloved Nigeria team was about to kick off against Scotland, in the first of Nigeria’s friendly preparation matches for the World Cup….

iGaming Business – Khoo Boon Hui, former president of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation, has warned that global scrutiny of the 2014 Fifa World Cup will not deter individuals from attempting to fix matches during the upcoming national team football tournament in Brazil. Khoo, who held the role of Interpol president between 2008 and 2012, now serves as senior deputy secretary of home affairs for Singapore and also sits on the advisory board for the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS). According to the Kyodo news agency, Khoo said that the huge interest in the tournament will not dissuade…

Casino.org – With just weeks to go until the world’s greatest sporting tournament kicks off in Brazil, FIFA, the international governing body of football, has called on gaming operators across the globe to help them stamp out corruption and match-fixing at the World Cup. FIFA uses the “Early Warning System” (EWS), technology that is proficient in monitoring and analyzing the global betting markets, but the system also relies on the cooperation of betting firms around the world to report any suspicious betting activity they uncover. Gambling partners share suspicious patterns with EWS via a secure communications platform, while the system…

iGaming Business – The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) regulatory body has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Early Warning System, a subsidiary of the Fifa international football governing body. The agreement has been activated ahead of this summer’s 2014 Fifa World Cup national team tournament. The MoU is based on an ongoing close co-operation for the early detection of suspicious activities in sport betting, which can serve as an indicator for match-fixing. The cooperation will include the exchange of relevant betting information to support the analysis of odds movements and investigations into suspicious football events. As part of…

iGaming Business – Football’s global governing body Fifa has handed lifetime bans to two English footballers for their part in helping to fix matches in Australia. According to the BBC, Reiss Noel and Joe Woolley, both 24, pleaded guilty to conduct that corrupts a betting outcome in December last year. The players were initially suspended by the Football Federation of Australia national governing body after they were found to be involved in helping fix games for a global betting syndicate. Noel and Woolley both played for Victorian Premier League second-tier side Southern Stars. A coach and two other players remain…