VIENNA: Some 20 current and former footballers in Austria have been interrogated by criminal investigators in relation to match-fixing.

The allegations involved at least 17 league matches, nine of which are in the Bundesliga, the country’s top-flight.

Investigators searched houses in Vienna, Lowe-Austria, Carinthia and Salzburg as a part of the case which involves games since 2004.

Reports said that all games under suspicion from the top division include either Kapfenberg or Groedig, who are both former clubs of Dominique Taboga, who was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly trying to manipulate matches.

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