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Maltese lottery operators Maltco Lotteries have helped organise a seminar to discuss the issues of match fixing. “Building National Networks in the EU to fight Match-Fixing” was held last week in collaboration with the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) and the European Lotteries and was supported by the European Commission.
Maltco Lotteries said it took up the initiative in order to bring together a number of local sports representatives and Government Stakeholders to discuss the phenomenon of match fixing and the importance that this subject brings along. This project started around a year ago and so far more than 20 seminars have been organized in most European Countries.
The aim behind such an ambitious project was mainly to raise awareness and educate sports administrators and national stakeholders about the match-fixing threat and the potential betting-related risks, to identify best practices at a national level, to promote a cooperation among all stakeholders, to safeguard sports integrity at a national level and to set the basis of EU national networks of stakeholders involved against match-fixing in order to facilitate a harmonised international framework.
The seminar was attended to by representatives from various Sports Associations and Stakeholders mainly the Malta Football Association, the Kunsill Malti ghall-Isport, The National Olympics Committee, the Malta Police Force, the Malta Football Players Association, the Malta Refereeing Department within the MFA and the Lotteries & Gaming Authority.
The issue of match fixing will be one of those discussed at the Betting on Football conference being held on 8 May at Stamford Bridge. Get more details here.
