Portuguese club Benfica being investigated for match fixing
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Portuguese club Benfica are being investigated for match fixing, according to reports in Portugal, quoted by the Daily Mail. Benfica, who are the current Primeira Liga leaders are being investigated due to hacked emails which have been accessed by prosecutors and relates to a four-year period between 2016 and 2020.
The investigation comes just a year-and-a-half after the club’s president Luis Filipe Vieira was forced to resign after getting arrested on tax evasion, aggravated fraud, forgery and money laundering charges.
Former Benfica, AC Milan and Portugal star Rui Costa, who became the club’s vice-president in 2020 but took over the president’s post when Vieira resigned, is also involved in the investigation, according to reports.
As per the Daily Mail, the inquiry alleges that ...