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Match-fixing investigations of Norwegian Second Division

The match-fixing investigations of the Norwegian 2. divisjon association football league are two ongoing investigations that started in 2012 in Norway and in Sweden. The investigations have resulted in police charges currently pending against ten individuals. Three players from Follo FK and two players from Asker Fotball are among those charged. The police investigation in Norway, are the first related to alleged match fixing in Norway.

Timeline
The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) made a police report on 9 July 2012, about alleged match fixing. Later that day Norway's then minister of culture announced that NFF, bookmaker Norsk Tipping and Norway's government will start work on a plan of action against match fixing. On 14 July 2012, Follo FK's trainer, Hans Erik Eriksen, admitted to having been involved in "illegal acts, linked to the same environment that is being investigated in the [alleged] match fixing case". In advance of this, Swedish police had arrested two inhabitants of Växjö, Sweden. Norway's then minister of culture presented a plan against match fixing, on 11 December 2012. Police charged another two inhabitants of Sweden on 12 December 2012. Furthermore, the police dropped match fixing charges against a licensed agent (spillkommisjonær) of bookmaker Norsk Tipping due to insufficient evidence against the agent (who had been imprisoned for two weeks during the summer of 2012, while his shop was raided by police). ==References==
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