ACC – In this eBulletin, we provide an overview of the findings arising from the Sorbonne-ICSS Integrity Report into the prevalence of match-fixing and illegal betting in international sport. The report details how a lack of regulatory oversight and the explosion of online betting have gone hand-in-hand with the growth of the illegal betting market, and has allowed criminals to launder approximately $US140 billion annually through sports bets. The report also highlights the problem of match-fixing at all levels and across a variety of disciplines of sport, with a particular emphasis on football and cricket, two sports that the report…

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…

Play The Game – Since 2012, the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS) and Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris have been working together on the research program “Ethics and Sport Security”. This week, the outcome will be presented in the shape of 700 pages which offers ‘the first-ever holistic report on Sport Integrity,” the invitation says. The forum takes place at the Sorbonne in Paris and will outline the key findings of the comprehensive research project. The cooperation between the ICSS and Panthéon-Sorbonne was initiated in 2012 with two main purposes 1) to identify and assess the efficiency of the available…

Slate – Sharjah was a short drive up the road from Dubai, but it felt like a world away, a face of the United Arab Emirates that most Westerners never saw. Sharjah didn’t look like a place where someone could get rich overnight. This made it a fitting location for the criminals who had infiltrated the game of soccer. Their specialty was illusion, and they were about to pull off their latest ruse, one that would bring a lucrative return after just 90 minutes. The match set for that day—March 26, 2011—was a friendly between the national teams of Kuwait…

Euro Sport – Australia’s National Rugby League will investigate allegations that one of its top officials knew about Canterbury Bulldogs forward Ryan Tandy’s gambling problems but failed to take action before the player was convicted of match-fixing. Tandy, banned from the NRL for life after attempting to fix a 2010 match, was found dead last week at his parents’ house in eastern New South Wales state having suffered an apparent drug overdose. State media reported this week that the NRL’s head of football Todd Greenberg was made aware of Tandy’s gambling problems when he was chief executive of the Sydney-based…