• The Swedish football federation (SvFF) has sanctioned four players with lengthly bans after finding them guilty of match-fixing and illegal betting. The four were provisionally suspended on 3 February this year due to an ongoing criminal investigation into match-fixing. Robin Armandt has been sanctioned with a five year ban ending 2 February 2026; Pawel Cibicki has been sanctioned with a four year ban ending 2 February 2025; Kristian Legiec has been sanctioned with a six year ban ending 2 February 2027; and Vladimir Pasarikovski has been sanctioned with a seven year ban ending 2 February 2028. It is understood from the full Decision (available here in Swedish) that the four were involved in manipulating six Division 3 Södra Götaland games between 19 April and 24 August 2019.

• An investigation by Four Corners for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has alleged that there are links between the owner of an Australian football (soccer) club and an Indonesian jailed for match-fixing. The Bakrie Group has owned 100% of Brisbane Roar since 2012 through a subsidiary company, Pelita Jaya Cronus. Four Corners alleges that Joko Driyono, a Director of that company, was jailed for 18 months in 2019 for interfering with evidence during a police investigation into match-fixing in Indonesian football. It is understood that Pelita Jaya Cronus has previously controlled an Indonesian top division club; owned a Belgian second division club that has now been declared bankrupt; and a Uruguayan youth club that has since been dissolved.

• The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) has supported a vote of no confidence in acting President Maxim Agapitov by 29 votes to four at its 2021 Congress in Finland, reports InsideTheGames. The EWF also adopted the new International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Constitution, which has yet to be made public, into its own Constitution. 

• Six players, a Head Coach, Team Manager, and a club Official have been charged with offences relating to match-fixing, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced (statements here and here). Seth Osei, Samed Mohammed, and Isaac Opoku Agyemang of Ashanti Gold SC have been charged with breaches of the GFA Code of Ethics in relation to a 17 July match against Inter Allies FC. Richard Lamptey, Hashmin Musah, and Danso Wiredu of Inter Allies have also been charged, as has Head Coach Felix Aboagye, Team Manager Ruben Adjetey and club Official Joseph Boye Markwei. Last week, the GFA charged the President and Chief Executive of Ashanti Gold SC with three breaches of its Code of Ethics relating to the alleged match-fixing.