


One of the five has also been charged with possession of cannabis and "conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting outcome of an event or event contingency.

In a statement from Victoria Police, it’s revealed that four 20-year-olds and a 27-year-old have been charged with “use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes,” which carries a maximum ten-year jail sentence. Now, charges have been brought against five of those arrested. The investigation, by Victoria Police's Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit, covered more than five matches where more than 20 bets were placed. In Australia, five people have been charged with throwing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive matches to gain winnings after betting against themselves.īack in August last year, six CS:GO players were arrested during an investigation into suspicious betting activity in a semi-professional eSports league. What just happened? With huge audiences, prize money, and betting, eSports resembles traditional sports more than ever before-and that also means match fixing.
