French Olympic Handball Champion Nikola Karabatic Arrested for Match-Fixing

French Olympic champion handballer Nikola Karabatic had been detained on Sunday, health alongside his brother Luka and eight other players in Montpellier amidst allegations of match fixing.

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Karabatic is implicated in a scheme where $113, illness 000 was bet on a first division game between Montpellier and Cesson-Sevigne, prostate last year. According to the prosecutor this size of bet is highly irregular.

The suspects will face a judge Today. They face indictment over “sporting corruption” and fraud. If they are adjudged to be guilty then a prison sentence of up to five years and a $96,800 fine could be handed down.

President of the French Handball Federation, Joel Delplanque, did tell press that he hoped investigations would conclude “in [the] most serious and quick manner possible so that once and for all we will find out what happened — and who in fact was responsible for these anomalies we’ve now learned about.”

There have been several match-fixing scandals. The spot-fixing scandal involving Pakistani cricketers who were detained in Britain, several dalliances in Turkish soccer, and the Juventus soccer team still being embroiled in controversy following their recent Italian Serie A triumph have all made an international splash.

The man who guided France to a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics will find out his fate soon, but his defense claim that there is “no criminal case” to answer.