UEFA questions Croatian referee over match-fixing

The Croatian Football Federation says a UEFA investigator is questioning a Croatian referee about a national league match the German police suspect was fixed.

Bruno Maric was questioned for three hours on Wednesday in Zagreb. He didn’t talk to the press.

Maric was the ref when Dinamo Zagreb beat Hajduk Split 3-0 in the final of the national Cup.

Zoran Mamic, the Dinamo manager, recently testified at UEFA about the match. He says he went there as a witness, but the Sportske Novosti daily claims he is a suspect, too.

German prosecutors, who have been investigating match-fixing across Europe since November, said recently they suspect 270 matches in several countries, including Croatia, and more than 250 people.

They say profits from manipulated bets amounted to ?7.5 million ($9.6 million).

August, 19, 2010, AP