As if the pressure to maintain the category was not enough, in the last week complaints about possible fixing of League matches were reactivated, with one of the teams compromised by permanence, Envigado Football Club, directly affected by the events.
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It is not a new issue and the complaints have been coming since the beginning of the year, when a leader of one of the main candidates to go down to B, César Guzmán, of Patriotas, denounced a player on his team for match-fixing.
Patriotas accuse Dimayor of corruption
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“Without a doubt, betting has had an influence on the FPC. The team has been permeated by criminal gangs on the subject of betting, approaching the players. At the internal level, the due determinations were made in the disciplinary part with the people involved in this betting issue,” Guzmán said, in March of this year, to Smoke Free Zone.
Carlos Augusto Rivas He was separated from the squad and then, on August 16, Dimayor suspended him for two years for corruption.
“IMPOSE on Mr. CARLOS AUGUSTO RIVAS MURILLO, with COMET number 1790111, the sanctions described below: a) sanction of disqualification from exercising any activity related to football for a period of two (2) years, counted from the execution of this ruling and b) sanction of prohibition of access to the stadiums where Colombian professional football is played for a period of two (2) years, counted from the execution of this ruling, for incurring the infraction contained in the article 99 of the CDU of the FCF”, says the resolution of the Disciplinary Commission.
Carlos Augusto Rivas
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The player, according to the investigation, made contacts and tried to persuade some of his colleagues to favor topics related to betting. The match in which the incident for which Rivas was sanctioned occurred was played on January 25, when Fortaleza beat Patriotas 2-0. The forward started in that match and came on in the 67th minute.
Rivas He would have offered between four and five million pesos to four of his teammates to provoke a certain number of corner kicks and assured that the matter was handled by an alleged relative of his.
The largest shareholder of Boyacá Chicó did not remain silent either, Eduardo Pimentel, who pointed directly to the Arbitration Commission and the Colombian Football Federation: “Manguling of an undaunted, defenseless and even complicit Federation, which sees how football is eaten up by the corrupt and does nothing,” he wrote on his X account.
This is Envigado FC’s complaint about bribery.
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Now, in the final stretch of the fight for permanence, Envigado investigates corruption within its team of players. Already one of them, Leyder Robledowas reported to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“We have alerted what is happening inside the club, we are doing an internal investigation, today we received voluntary statements from several players who say that they have had calls and insinuations, not only from the match against Bucaramanga, but also from previous matches for more than a year. “, Ramiro Ruiz, president of Envigado, told Blu Radio.
“He called his teammates to suggest to them. We did the internal verification and there are several players involved for more than a year. We have identified that the same name is always confirmed but there are others that we have a lot of suspicion,” said the leader.
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On Friday, Fortaleza also reported that they made offers to players from their club to alter the result of their team’s match, which were not accepted. The information was delivered to Dimayor.
JOSÉ ORLANDO ASCENCIO
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