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Serious spanish newspapers ABC have stated that the 2 members of the russian mafia who were caught in Spain confessed that had been fixing matches the last season in order to make FC Zenith winners of the UEFA CUP .According to the statements, they confessed that they had fixed the matches against Bayern and Rangers.
ABC says that the criminals were caught for drug abuse, but that their relations with Zenit makes it rather worrying. Allegedly the police were trailing phone calls of Gennadij Petrov, mafia boss and his right hand Leonid Khristoforov in which there were some conversations about fixing the macthes stated above.
Although it is yet to be confirmed, the same source says that the spanish police started investigation in order to check the russians statements about fixing those matches.


ABC are the third biggest newspapers in Spain and they are sold in 250 000 copies daily