Lawyer: Sedatives given to cooks and doctors

Lawyer: Sedatives given to cooks and doctors

Published Nov. 27, 2009 7:56 p.m. ET

The international gang suspected in Europe's biggest match-fixing scandal supplied sedatives to team doctors and hotel cooks to drug players in matches to be manipulated, a lawyer for one of the arrested suspects said Friday.

Prosecutors believe the gang did not shy away from "locking up people in basements" or "sedating players," lawyer Burkhard Benecken said.

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