An internal audit launched by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) at the end of 2024 into referees' betting activity found that, of 571 registered referees, 371 held betting accounts, and 152 of them had actively placed bets on domestic matches. Following this finding, the TFF initiated
Professional football in the United Kingdom (UK) is officially regarded as a high-risk target for money laundering. In fact, the UK Government National Risk Assessment expressly includes professional football within its financial crime focus. There are a number of reasons why money laundering in football is a
In General Money laundering is a significant and growing problem in sport, which, globally, is now a multi-billion US dollar industry in its own right, particularly in association football, which is the world’s favourite and most lucrative sport. This is largely due to the eye-watering sums, cross-border