President of the Cyprus National Betting Authority, Ioanna Fiakkou, is below crook research in connection to match-solving claims after she refused to reply MPs’ questions at a House hearing.
The House’s Ethics Committee known as Fiakkou after she refused to offer facts approximately corruption in soccer.
Reportedly, Fiakkou refused handy over facts to the Cyprus Sports Ethics Committee, former board member and legal professional Charis Savvides claimed.
As then head of the Sports Ethics Committee, Savvides were investigating allegations with the aid of using investor in Nicosia membership Omonia FC Stavros Papastavrou approximately corrupt acts with the aid of using outstanding humans in the soccer association.
Savvides claimed he had requested Fiakkou to offer applicable facts on suspicious having a bet pastime in 2021, however she refused to do so, bringing up private records protection.
The required facts worried a particular having a bet organization energetic at the island.
Fiakkou turned into invited to offer her aspect of occasions however refused to reply questions posed with the aid of using House Ethics Committee chair AKEL MP Irene Charalambides.
Infuriated, Charalambides demanded that Fiakkou recognize the House and solution the questions, noting that concealment is a crook offence.
The head of the National Betting Authority answered with the aid of using announcing her duty is to record to the investigating authorities, requesting the intervention of the Legal Service.
A spokesperson for the Legal Service advised the committee that someone below research has the proper now no longer to reply due to the fact some thing they are saying earlier than the House Committee may be used towards them in court.
Those remarks discovered that Fiakkou is below research in reference to match-solving, with Charalambides telling her she ought to have made that clean to MPs.
Last month, Savvides, the previous head of the Sports Ethics Committee, had advised MPs that the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) had currently despatched an electronic mail related to pink notices for sixteen fits possibly to had been manipulated.
He claimed a coverup with the aid of using the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and a UEFA official.
Savvides advised MPs the CFA did now no longer take the distinctive measures to research warnings over feasible constant fits despatched with the aid of using UEFA or even denied receiving any pink notice.