LONDON (Reuters) - Players and officials found guilty of match-fixing should face lifetime bans from the game, the new head of the Spanish professional league (LFP) said on Wednesday, warning of the dangers of allowing corruption to take root.
The scale of the problem facing the multi-billion dollar football industry was exposed in February when European police and prosecutors said hundreds of games may have been rigged in a match-fixing syndicate being run from Singapore.
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