The Queensland Police Service’s Drug and Serious Crime Group in association with the Crime and Corruption Commission and the Victoria Police Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit have undertaken an investigation resulting in the arrest of a professional tennis player on charges of match fixing.
The investigation, which commenced in 2016, focused on a tennis match being played at the Challenger Tournament in Traralgon, Victoria where a number of suspicious bets were made.
The investigation led detectives to suspect that a number of people received information that the match would allegedly be fixed and subsequently placed bets through various betting agencies.
The CCC has conducted coercive hearings in relation to this investigation throughout 2017.
A 28-year-old Chelmer man, a professional tennis player, was today charged with facilitating match fixing in relation to the Traralgon match. He has also been charged with nine counts of supplying a dangerous drug and one offence of possess a dangerous drug.
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