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Six CS:GO players arrested for alleged match-fixing in Australia By Games News

Six CS:GO players arrested for alleged match-fixing in Australia By Games News

Australian police have captured six Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players during an examination concerning suspicious wagering movement in an esports association. It's supposed that the six men, all somewhere in the range of 19 and 22 years of age, orchestrated to lose coordinates ahead of time and afterward put down wagers on those matches. 

In any event, five matches were influenced during an anonymous CS:GO competition and in excess of 20 wagers were put on those matches by Australian punters. The six men, four from Melbourne rural areas and two from Mount Eliza, Victoria, face as long as ten years in jail. They have been discharged pending further requests. 

The examination started in March after a tip-off from a wagering organization, and investigators keep on working with various wagering organizations, including Sportsbet, in connection to the case. 

Colleague Commissioner Neil Paterson stated: "Esports is extremely a rising donning industry and with that will come to the interest for wagering accessibility on the results of competitions and matches. 

"These warrants likewise feature that police will take any reports of suspicious or crime inside esports truly, and we urge anybody with data to approach."

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