The season has already ended, but the most serious problems begin now for the Kaunas “Atleto” team.
15 minutes sources said that on Thursday the authorities searched the homes of some of the players.
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- Representatives of the police and the prosecutor’s office confirmed to 15min about the searches of the basketball club carried out in the pre-trial investigation;
- The Kaunas “Atleto” team, which ended the NKL season, is suspected. Matches from the last season are being investigated.
- 15min tried to call the head of the Atleto club, and also received comments from the NKL president and specialists recording cases of manipulation of sports competitions.
- Kaunas “Atletas” has been competing in the NKL for the past few years, and in the past has won sets of silver medals in the LKL championships.
Ramūnas Matonis, the head of the communication department of the Police Department, confirmed the fact about the “procedural actions of the Kaunas police criminalists in one of their pre-trial investigations”. Also Haroldas Mulevičius, the prosecutor of the criminal prosecution department of the Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Office, who is conducting the investigation.
“The investigation is ongoing, it is related to gambling, in other words to fixed matches,” said H. Mulevičius.
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