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Sports Integrity Briefs – 28 October 2021
• Italy has opened a federal investigation into whether Italian football clubs have artificially inflated the value of player transfers in order to help balance club accounts, reports Reuters. It is understood that a Report by the Supervisory Commission for Serie A clubs (COVISOC) examined 62 player transfers that took place between 2019 and 2021, 42 of which involve Juventus. The Report has been passed to Italy’s federal prosecutor, and the Italian football association (FIGC) told the news agency that it has opened an investigation.
• Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), which agreed a partnership in July 2020, are investigating foreign football (soccer) club ownership in Australia’s A-League, reports ABC. An investigation by Four Corners for ABC found that there were links between the owner of an Australian football (soccer) club and an Indonesian jailed for match-fixing.
• Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) has sanctioned two unaffiliated people with ten year bans for use/attempted use of a prohibited substance; possession of a prohibited substance; and trafficking. Maurizio Intranova’s sanction expires on 14 October 2031; and Emanuele Ferrari’s sanction expires on 11 October 2031.
• The Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) sent 26 match alerts and eight integrity reports about suspicious events to its partners during the third quarter of 2021. Twelve alerts were sent to FIFA; ten to UEFA; two to the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA); and one to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The full GLMS Report is available here.
• Russia is 100% compliant with the UNESCO Convention against Doping in Sport, the UNESCO AdLogic self assessment system has concluded. An announcement promoting Russia’s compliance was made by Russia’s Ministry of Sport yesterday. Oleg Matytsin (Олег Матыцин), Russia’s Minister of Sport, is leading Russia’s delegation at the eighth session of the Conference of Parties to the International Convention Against Doping in Sport, which took place in Paris from 26-28 October.
