MADRID — The Spanish police arrested 34 people suspected of being involved in a criminal betting organization that fixed tennis matches in tournaments held in Spain and Portugal.
The bets were placed on men’s matches in at least 17 tournaments and yielded profits of more than half a million euros, the police said in a statement on Thursday.
The arrests, the result of an investigation that began in 2014, took place across several Spanish cities. The network paid bribes to players to get them to throw matches, using as an intermediary a former tennis player who knew the players involved.