In 2023, new legislation, as well as revised sports regulations, have been adopted to further improve the legal tools to combat match-fixing in Swedish sports.
For many years, the reigning attitude in Swedish sports was that corruption was something that existed only in other countries, not in Sweden. This somewhat naïve view drastically changed in the early 2010s. Following some high-profile cases that ended up in criminal courts, the first specific regulations on match-fixing in Swedish sports were adopted at the General Assembly of the Swedish Sports Confederation in 2015 (in the following referred to as MFR).
The MFR adopted in 2015 were mainly focused on two types of violations: match manipulation and betting on a competition where the person in question participated in a capacity where he or she could...
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