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Football: Zoltan K. Denies His Involvement In Match Fixing Scandal
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The former professional football player claims that he did not commit any crime and is only a victim. He admitted, however, that he had placed bets on matches.
Zoltan K. Is involved in multiple match fixing scandals, both national and international. His confession was exactly the same what he confessed a day earlier in another case. Basically he denied that he has committed a crime, was involved in match fixing. He insisted that this case is made up, the prosecution is just desperately searching for crimes. He said that he only knows how to play football and after finishing his career he tried to remain close to his profession. K. admitted that he placed bets on various matches but it had nothing to do with the made-up crime organization. The former player, now secondary co-defendant is under arrest for two and a half years now.
K. and another man, Mátyás L. is currently involved in three cases altogether: in an international and two Hungarian. In the latter two cases the aforementioned two man among with others manipulated REAC’s, Diósgyőr’s and Siófok’s matches. According the prosecution, the suspects gave € 1000 to 10 000 to the players in order to manipulate the results. This obviously made betting a lot easier for them. Even a manager, Zoltán A. is involved. The suspects can be sentenced at least ten years in prison if they are found guilty.
In the international case, however the stakes were higher, the winners won billions. The primary suspect here is a man from Singapore. He was in charge of the match fixing, but had his trusted men in certain countries. His men in charge for Hungary were supposedly Zoltán K. and Mátyás L.
