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By Steve Scherer
ROME, May 19 (Reuters) - Italian police on Tuesday detained some 50 people, including team managers, players and a suspected Calabrian mobster, accused of fixing dozens of soccer matches in the country's third division and its top semi-pro league.
"The probe demonstrates there was a heinous pact of corruption in the world of soccer," Andrea Grassi, investigator for Italy's elite SCO, an Italian anti-mafia police unit, told Reuters.
"It shows the interest of criminal networks in the business generated by soccer and the legal betting industry.