In 2021 following, inter alia, a report from gambling provider Unibet, the Rotterdam police unit, under the direction of the Functional Prosecutor’s Office (FP), launched a criminal investigation into unusual gambling behaviour surrounding the issuing of a yellow card during a football match in the Dutch premier league between Sparta Rotterdam and PSV on 16 January 2021.
One of the suspects was Sparta Rotterdam player Tommie Beugelsdijk. On 22 April 2022, the Dutch prosecutor communicated that the case was dismissed for lack of evidence because there was no evidence that Beugelsdijk had “made arrangements” to deliberately receive a...
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