The fraud involved bribes for players, and among the main actions, it was necessary for the player to commit penalties in the first half of the games that were played. Each player received R$ 150,000 per bet for this act (~U$ 28,734.00).
In fact, this makes it much easier to earn money from sports betting.
Unfortunately these are situations that occur in several countries, but the amount of money involved always calls our attention.
In these cases, bets were placed on the competitions that we call "Series B", which is the second largest football championship in Brazil, in which the best classifieds guarantee a place for the main championship in the following year.
Maybe not only rich bettors who benefit, but both teams that compete will also benefit because one team wins and the team that loses gets paid from the results of the agreement with the bettor.
Maybe this kind of thing often happens in several sports matches in certain leagues and happens very often.