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| Germany's biggest soccer scandal in more than 30 years deepened Friday when four people were arrested and a newspaper reported that a referee told prosecutors he was paid more than $65,000 to fix games. The referee, Robert Hoyzer, admitted getting money for rigging three games and also implicated players and other refs, the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said. |
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| A German referee told prosecutors he was paid more than $65,000 to fix games and implicated other referees and players in the country's biggest soccer scandal in more than 30 years. Two people were arrested Friday in Berlin. |
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Hoyzer told the newspaper “many more people are involved” but declined to give details. |
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| The first soccer player was implicated in Germany's widening game-fixing scandal Sunday, and prosecutors charged three men arrested in the case with fraud. A referee also was replaced for a first-division game Sunday after his name surfaced during the investigation. The German Soccer Federation called the move "purely precautionary" and said it did not suspect Juergen Jansen of fixing games. Michael Born, the business manager of third-division SC Paderborn, confirmed to The Associated Press his team had informed the federation that one of its players was involved with the Croatian betting group allegedly behind the fixing. |