Summary Investigators say house searches were conducted in Vienna, Lower-Austria, Carinthia and Salzburg.
VIENNA (AP) - Criminal investigators say 20 current and former footballers in Austria have been interrogated for their alleged involvement in fixing at least 17 league matches, including nine in the country s top-flight division, since 2004.
Investigators said Thursday house searches were conducted in Vienna, Lower-Austria, Carinthia and Salzburg.
All first-division games under suspicion include either Kapfenberg or Groedig, both former clubs of Dominique Taboga, who was arrested Wednesday for his alleged attempt to manipulate games after he claimed former international Sanel Kuljic had talked him into match-fixing to settle a personal debt.
Without identifying the players questioned, investigators say they obtained a list with 26 footballers names on it from two Albanian men, who were arrested last week for allegedly coordinating the fixing.
