Bulgaria's Deadly Game

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BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

No fewer than twenty football bosses have been murdered in Bulgaria in the last decade. In Assignment, Margot Dunne explores reports of deep rooted corruption and matchfixing in the country's top league.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.4	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:05.0	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:12.4	Hello and welcome to a noisy football crowd here in Bulgaria.
0:17.6	I'm Margot Dunn and in today's edition of assignment
0:20.6	on the BBC World Service.
0:22.3	I'm looking at what's emerging as a grim record in this country.
0:26.1	It's the place with the most murdered football club owners
0:29.0	in the world.
0:30.1	No fewer than 15 in the last decade.
0:33.0	And many more people connected with the game
0:35.3	have also been killed or badly injured.
0:39.2	It's a symptom of what are said to be endemic links
0:42.2	between football and wider organised crime.
0:45.9	A substantial part of all the club owners
0:47.9	and club managers in Bulgaria are part of this mafia
0:50.5	that's been in Bulgaria for more than 22 years
0:53.3	and there are few politicians that are brave enough
0:55.7	to face these threats.
0:58.1	To have a football club, this is a good way
1:00.3	to legalise threat healing, prostitution.
1:03.5	Now we have some very rich people from this process,
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