The Swedish gambling regulator, Spelinspektionen, has released data on suspicious betting activity for the period from February 2022 to December 2022.
According to the data, obtained through an agreement with Sportradar AG, the regulator received reports that 11 sporting contests were highly likely to have been exposed to some form of match-fixing activity. Each reported incident involved football matches but none of theses were in the country’s top leagues.
Spelinspektionen’s report also notes that gambling operators reported all suspicious activity for the previous years which was then aggregated by Sportradar. The reports revealed 53 suspicious bets during 24 different matches throughout 2021. 19 of these matches were football matches while the others included basketball, ice hockey, tennis, and bandy.
2020 saw a total of 45 suspicious betting events during 27 matches.
Spelinspektionen did not provide any further details on any action that may be taken to address and potential suspicious activity nor did it name the matches that match-fixing may have taken place in.
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