Soccer - Spanish players, officials held on suspicion of match-fixing

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested several first- and second-division soccer players and officials on Tuesday on suspicion of forming a match-fixing group to profit from betting on games, the police said.

Operation Oikos involved nine raids across the country and an expected 11 arrests, the police said in a statement. La Liga, Spanish football's governing body, said it had contacted the authorities about a possible illegal scheme and had worked with them on the operation.