The Competition and Disciplinary Committee (KKR) of the Finnish Floorball Federation announced on Wednesday 3 December the sanctions related to prohibited betting.

A total of 80 fixed-term competition bans were imposed on players and officials. The length of the bans ranges from roughly two months to around seven months.

The investigation was carried out over the summer by the Finnish Center for Integrity in Sports (SUEK), which received extensive betting data related to the case from Veikkaus. SUEK submitted its report to the Floorball Federation’s Competition and Disciplinary Committee in the autumn, and the committee concluded its work at the beginning of December.

Men’s top-level floorball has not been available as a Veikkaus betting product during the investigation. It will, however, return to the betting list in the near future. Monitoring of betting markets and customer behavior will continue to be ongoing and thorough, as it is with all Veikkaus betting products.

Based on the investigations, prohibited betting has been extensive and systematic in floorball. Now that the sanctions have been imposed, it is a good time to, in a sense, start from a clean slate. The violations have been serious, but we have not found any indications in the investigation of the issue we were most concerned about – potential match-fixing. That is extremely important, says Veikkaus’ Head of Security and Risk Management, Mikko Lahti.