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Old 09-02-2007, 07:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Convicted match-fixers get three years in jail plus fines

This is probably the amount of time that Doughty will have to serve.

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Convicted match-fixers get three years in jail plus fines

By Yaniv Kobovic

Former soccer player Eli Cohen and other conspirators in a game-fixing scandal were sentenced yesterday to up to three years in prison. The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court gave Cohen and former referee Bariq Tahsin a three-year sentence for bribery and conspiracy involving several matches. The judge, Dan Mor, reasoned a stiff fine was necessary to deter future behavior and to protect the sport as a cultural institution.

Army Radio reporter Niv Raskin uncovered the conspiracy in 2001.

The judge also fined both convicts NIS 25,000 each. Another convict, Avi Hudeda, who also organized betting on the games, received 27 months in prison and a NIS 40,000 fine. The fourth person convicted in the case, former referee Haim Mirovsky, was sentenced to six months of community service and fined NIS 5,000.

Judge Mor wrote in his decision that because Israeli society has to cope with widespread corruption, there's a need to "defend the world of sport, which is a part of the culture." Therefore, he handed down sentences including jail time to put a "mark of Cain" on the defendees. He added the public should know the court system agrees with it on the importance of fair competition in sport, and that any sports official or professional veering from the straight and narrow would pay a painful and heavy price. He expressed his hope the sentence would deter others in future, considering that the temptation to make money in both legal and illegal gambling won't disappear from the country.
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This is probably the amount of time that Doughty will have to serve.
Are you talking about Tim Donaghy?

If so, I guess you could be right but I think he'll get less.

I don't have any particular expertise that leads me to say that, just my gut feeling.
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