The national anti-corruption office USKOK has completed its investigation of match fixing in the First Football Division, bringing charges against 21 persons, the State Attorney's Office said on Monday.
According to unofficial sources, Dinamo Zagreb's former youth squad coach Vinko Saka and Slovenian nationals Dino Lalic and Admir Suljic have reached a plea agreement with USKOK under which they will each serve one year in prison and will pay back about a million euros they earned by betting on the games they fixed.
Identifying them only by their initials, USKOK said on its website that the accused were charged with conspiracy to commit crime, giving and taking bribes, and fraud.
The indictment says that from March to May 2010 Saka, Lalic and Suljic fixed the results of football matches by giving, or promising to give, different amounts of money to several players, coaches and managers of Croatian First Football Division clubs, and then paid considerable sums of money in betting shops on the fixed games.
Saka, Lalic and Suljic are in custody in Zagreb's Remetinec prions, and USKOK has asked the court to extend their detention.
The police launched an investigation in this case last year based on data from the German police. Eight First Division matches are believed to have been fixed in the March-May 2010 period while the fixing of four games failed.
