Abstract
Not only in Asia but also in Germany Match Fixing has become a real problem that causes high financial losses for associations, players, bet providers and individual players.
The following chapter points out to the most interesting cases of Match Fixing in Germany and develops solution statements to cope with Match Fixing in the future.
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Pathological gambling is associated with both social and family costs. For the new DSM 5.0, pathological gambling is being considered as an Addictive Disorder. This reflects the increasing and consistent evidence that some behaviors, such as gambling, activate the brain reward system with effects similar to those of drugs of abuse and that gambling disorder symptoms resemble substance use disorders to a certain extent, see http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm/dsm5.
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German is listed on rank 14 in the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/ (Aug. 22, 2012).
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In 1978, Stasi chief Erich Mielke announced at a meeting that it was time Dynamo Berlin began to win trophies in East Germany’s Oberliga. Referees were nobbled, as the Stasi had final say over which officials went on the list for coveted UEFA and FIFA matches.
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http://www.betsir.com/gambling-asian-culture.html the Chinese culture is uniquely steeped in gambling, with its history including the oldest recorded accounts of gambling worldwide more than 3,000 years ago. In modern China, social gambling is a common and accepted form of entertainment and celebration. See also Godot (2013), Loo et al. (2008) and Raylu and Oei (2004).
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(1) Whoever, with the intent of obtaining for himself or a third person an unlawful material benefit, damages the assets of another, by provoking or affirming a mistake by pretending that false facts exist or by distorting or suppressing true facts, shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine. (2) An attempt shall be punishable.
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LG Berlin (512) 68 Js 451/05 Kls (42/05) and (512) 68 Js 451/05 Kls (25/05).
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BGH 5 StR 181/06.
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LG Frankfurt/Main, judgment from 4 February 2009, 2 StR 165/08.
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LG Bochum 12 KLs 35 Js 141/10 – 16/11.
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Feltes, T. (2013). Match Fixing in Western Europe. In: Haberfeld, M., Sheehan, D. (eds) Match-Fixing in International Sports. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02582-7_2
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