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UK Lawmakers Call for Sport-Betting Corruption

LONDON – As reported by the Agence France-Presse: "British lawmakers have called for tough new measures to crack down on corruption in sports-related betting.

"A report by an all-party Parliamentary group says the growth of Internet betting exchanges, where it is possible to back horses, individuals or teams to lose, makes sport more vulnerable to fraud and match-fixing.

"The group calls on the government to adopt a call from Lord Condon, the former top police officer who now heads the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, to raise the maximum jail sentence for gambling cheats above the current two years.

"The inquiry took evidence from all the major sports including horse racing, football, cricket, boxing, both rugby codes and tennis.

"…The inquiry came about after Ladbrokes chief executive Chris Bell claimed that 'at least one race a day was being corrupted by the availability of laying horses to lose on betting exchanges'.

"…Other recommendations from the inquiry call for sport's governing bodies to have a say in the type of bets offered to punters and to make bookmakers set up 'audit trails' - something the new betting exchanges already do - to allow suspicious betting patterns to be traced…"

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