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Victoria police have charged five Australians with deliberately losing and betting simultaneously on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive bouts, the first such charges in Australia.
The charges stemmed from an investigation by the Victoria Police Sports Integrity Intelligence Unit last year, which resulted in six arrests. Five men in Victoria have been charged as a result of that investigation, all with the use of corrupt conduct information for gambling purposes, and one of the men was also charged with possession of cannabis and “conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting result of an event or event contingency “.
The list of charges is as follows:
A 20-year-old Mill Park man has been charged with engaging in conduct that corrupts or would corrupt the outcome of a wager on an event or event contingency (section 195C Crimes Act 1958) x2, use of corrupt conduct information for the purpose of gambling (section 195F Crimes Act 1958) x2, and owns cannabis; a 20-year-old South Morang man has been accused of using corrupt conduct information for gambling purposes (section 195F Crimes Act 1958) x3; A 20-year-old Mill Park man has been charged with using corrupt conduct information for gambling purposes (section 195F Crimes Act 1958) x3; A 20-year-old Mill Park man has been accused of using corrupt conduct information for gambling purposes (section 195F Crimes Act 1958) x3; and A 27-year-old sales agent has been accused of using corrupt conduct information for betting purposes (section 195F Crimes Act 1958) x5.
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At that time, Victoria’s Assistant Commissioner of Police, Neil Paterson, told ABC that they had earned up to $ 30,000 from games thrown. ABC also reported Sunday that the investigation began with the ESEA Mountain Dew League, an online league run by third-party ESEA organizers that runs in North America, Europe and Australia.
The five Victorian men will appear in court on September 15, according to Victoria Police.
This story originally appeared on Kotaku Australia.
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