A German soccer player has been arrested on fraud and organised crime charges in connection with a widening match-fixing case. Two referees have already been arrested in the worst scandal to hit German soccer in more than 30 years. Berlin state prosecutors said on Friday that Steffen Karl, from third division Chemnitz FC, helped manipulate the results of a May 22, 2004, match between SC Paderborn and Chemnitz by giving away a penalty.
Referee Robert Hoyzer has already admitted he accepted bribes to rig the results of that game as well as others.
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