Oleh Orekhov, the Ukrainian Referee Banned For life
The Ukrainian referee was given a life time ban on refereeing any match, as ordered by the courts on accounts of involvement in Match fixing.
Oleh Orekhov is a Ukrainian referee of the Union of European Football Associations was handed out a life time ban from the courts from ever refereeing a match again.
The Ukrainian was contacted from gang members involved with a criminal group that has been known to be involved in match fixing.
The f43-year-old referee knew the members personally and the group members have already been arrested on charges of fraud.
The Court of Arbitration has declared on Tuesday that they are going to further continue with their ruling of UEFA.
The referee has been charged for receiving around fifty thousand Euros to manipulate the game to his favour. The fixture that was said to be manipulated was the one between CSKA Sofia and Basel in the end of 2009.
The court issued an official statement on the matter and it said as follow “The CAS panel concluded that...a life ban from any football-related activity was a proportionate sanction,"
A member of the criminal group came forward and confessed to the court that he had met with the referee in Kyiv and had made a deal with him regarding the match.
The member made a profit of around 150,000 Euros from the outcome and had given Oleh Orekhov 50,000 Euros for his part.
The Ukrainian pleaded not guilty by saying that he was not aware that he had to report every contact of such cause to the UEFA and this was due to the fact that he had poor English skills also he was not aware of the person that he had to approach.
UEFA has made it clear to all employees that they have to come forward with all such attempts made to corrupt any match and failure to do so would result in charges of the court
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