The former Premier League player Dickson Etuhu is in the court of appeal in Sweden known guilty of attempted match-fixing in a match in Sweden.
This writes the news agency Reuters.
The now 37-year-old Etuhu, who has played in the English clubs Manchester City, Norwich, Sunderland, Fulham and Blackburn, had been acquitted by a court in Stockholm, but the high court did not agree with.
Dickson is, of course, shocked and disappointed. Everything speaks for the fact that we must try the case in the Supreme court, says Etuhus lawyer Johan Åkermark, according to Expressen.
Dickson Etuhu in the duel with Manchester City’s Alexander Kolarov. Photo: PHIL NOBLE/Ritzau Scanpix
He has been given a conditional sentence and must pay the daily fines, and the prosecutor is satisfied with the court’s decision.
– of course, I am satisfied with the outcome. The high court’s judgment implies that it is proven that not even football’s highest division, the group have won…, is free of match-fixing, said prosecutor Johan Lindmark for the TT.
Etuhu played for AIK from 2014 to 2017.
the Accusation goes to former national team along with a second husband would pay the former team-mate Kyriakos Stamatopoulos in order to manipulate the match between AIK and IFK Gothenburg in 2017.
match-Fixing has become a major issue in Sweden.
The Swedish media SVT and TT wrote earlier in the week, to 47 matches from the best range of group have won…, and down to 3. the division has been highly scrutinized, because they have been the subject of suspicions about match-fixing, and in many of them, there is reason to believe that misconduct occurred.
the federation has rated the fighting on a firepunktsskala, and here is assessed in 19 of the matches, it is either likely or very likely that they have been manipulated.
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