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FBI Investigates CS:GO Match Fixing with ESIC
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According to Ian Smith, commissioner for the Esports Integrity Commission, ESIC is working with the FBI to investigate CS:GO match-fixing and "outside betting syndicates."
During an interview on the Youtube channel slash32, Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) Commissioner Ian Smith revealed that his organization has teamed up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the match-fixing case. The U.S. investigating authority is treating esports fraud situations as part of a larger case involving organized syndicates.
Smith hopes that in the next two weeks ESIC will have the opportunity to publish the first results of the investigation.
In an optimistic scenario, I expect that we will be able to publish the results of the first part of the investigation within the next ten to fourteen days. But this is part of a larger case, which, unfortunately, will take a little longer to investigate. A small group of people have been involved in match-fixing in North America for a long time.
We are cooperating to some extent with law enforcement agencies, cooperating with the FBI, which only recently have their own structure to investigate sports betting. They are good but lack experience because until recently sports betting was not a problem in the US. Now they are only getting to the bottom of what is happening.
In September 2020, it became known that the Esports Integrity Commission took up an investigation into possible cases of match fixing in the ESEA MDL league. On January 22, 35 players were banned for betting on games within the Australian region in which they themselves took part. Then the ESIC representative clarified that these are only the first results of a large-scale investigation that has been ongoing for a year and a half.
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