{"id":13836,"date":"2014-06-05T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2014-06-05T22:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:58:03","slug":"2-referees-1-football-official-acquitted-of-bribery-charges-in-czech-match-fixing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/2-referees-1-football-official-acquitted-of-bribery-charges-in-czech-match-fixing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"2 referees, 1 football official acquitted of bribery charges in Czech match fixing case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_95558746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13837\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_95558746.jpg\" alt=\"football soccer money bribery\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_95558746.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_95558746-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">PRAGUE, Czech Republic\u2014A court in the Czech capital has acquitted two former referees and a football official of bribery charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Referee Tomas Adamek stood trial after he admitted he was paid 200,000 koruna ($9,900) to fix Baumit Jablonec\u2019s home game against Viktoria Plzen in the top Czech league on March 17, 2012\u2014a 2-0 win for Plzen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Another referee, Pavel Byma, who was a witness and didn\u2019t report wrongdoing, and Martin Svoboda, a football official who offered the bribe according to police investigators, were also acquitted by the Prague-West county court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Judge Jitka Drabkova ruled on Thursday that there was not enough evidence to convict the three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The case is not over yet because the state prosecutor has appealed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic\u2014A court in the Czech capital has acquitted two former referees and a football official of bribery charges. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}