Match-fixing spreading to sports such as chess and darts, select committee told

Former Crystal Palace academy player gives evidence ‘There is much more to be done’, says Moses Swaibu Match-fixing has increased at an “extraordinary” rate across the world, a select committee of the House of Lords has been told, with organised crime networks even infiltrating chess as they look to launder proceeds from drug and human trafficking. The International Agreements Committee heard startling testimony on Thursday about the rise of match-fixing as part of its scrutiny of the Macolin Convention, the first and only international treaty on the manipulation of sports competitions. The UK

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