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Sportradar Integrity Services has revealed the detection of a record number of suspicious matches in its annual ‘Betting Corruption and Match-fixing’ report.
Sportradar’s bet-monitoring service, the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS), identified 903 matches in 2021 which showed signs of suspicious activity, across 10 sports and in 76 countries.
This represents the highest number of suspicious matches recorded in Sportradar Integrity Services’ 17-year history and a 2.4 per cent increase on the previous high of 882 suspicious matches recorded in 2019.
As well as an increase in suspicious activity, record levels of global sports betting turnover were recorded, which Sportradar now estimates at more than €1.45 trillion. According to the report, in 2021 approximately €165 million was generated in match-fixing betting profit.
In response to the record number of suspicious matches, Sportradar worked with its partners to support 65 sanctions: 46 sporting sanctions, 15 criminal sanction...
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