Fixing? -- Officials with the Scottish Football League have launched an investigative probe into match fixing after £250,000 was wagered on Ayr United to defeat the Raith Rovers in the seemingly unimportant final match of the season. The SFL's chief Peter Donald has also asked the Association of British Bookmakers to join in the investigation. William Hill, who along with Paddy Power reduced odd on the match after receiving an abnormal amount of bets, lost a five-figure sum on the event. Bookmaker Willie King eventually stopped taking bets on the game.
Speaking -- David Carruthers, CEO of Costa Rica-based BetonSports.com will speak at the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States assembly in New Mexico this week on how to maintain integrity while providing sports betting to the states.
Aland Gaming -- PAF, the master licensee for I-gaming in the Åland islands (a Finnish territory in the Baltic Sea) has been granted permission to begin issuing sublicenses. "PAF has invited companies to partner with them under a sublicense, thereby allowing them to operate their Internet gaming activities from the Åland islands under PAF's supervision," said Lars Porko, CEO of PAF Finland.
Scandal in the NJ Assembly -- The home and office of Anthony Impreveduto, a deputy speaker of the New Jersey Assembly's ethics committee, were last week raided by state authorities investigating violations of his election law enforcement filings. Apparently thousands of dollars in expenses to one of his credit cards may have been reimbursed later by his campaign fund. The credit card charges included expenses from trips to Curacao, Toronto and London. Impreveduto, who sponsored a bill that would permit Internet gambling at Atlantic City casino, was a featured speaker at I-gaming conferences in Toronto and Curacao in 2001. By bringing his wife along on all three trips Impreveduto may have violated campaign spending rules and could lose his seat.