Baku / 07.06.18 / Turan: Five Armenians were arrested on charges of corruption and money laundering in Belgium, the prosecutor's office of this European country said.
The charges were brought in as part of an investigation into the criminal organization, which specialized in manipulating the results of tennis matches.
"During the operation, about 250 thousand euros, numerous evidence and documents were seized," the office's communiqué said, Interfax reported.
The judicial investigator in Gent has issued five warrants of arrest. They concern five men aged 27 to 54, "belonging to Armenian nationality," the prosecutor's office specified, without naming the names and their citizenship.
As part of the investigation of the Belgian prosecutor's office in the case of an organized criminal group, 21 searches were conducted in various communes of East Flanders and Brussels on Tuesday. Thirteen people were detained for interrogation. Eight of them were released.
The investigation concerned the conclusion of fraudulent wagers on the results of agreed matches. The criminal grouping, which local media called Belgian-Armenian, profited from betting on matches with a previously known result. -0--
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