West Ham’s shirt sponsor Betway were responsible for reporting the suspicious betting patterns that caused the collapse of Lucas Paqueta’s proposed £85million transfer to Manchester City this week amidst a corruption probe.
Mail Sport has learned that Betway’s integrity alert system was triggered by a series of bets they received on the Brazilian midfield player to be booked in West Ham’s Premier League match against Aston Villa on 12 March, which they immediately reported to the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), a global group of hundreds of bookmakers responsible for policing corruption in the gambling industry.