FIFA, Interpol to enlighten Indian football on corruption

“FIFA has a partnership with Interpol since 2011 and the focus is to put into place the preventive measures and educate all the stakeholders and key players about the menace of match manipulations. We intend to engage all the law enforcing agencies in the act,” Prabhakaran said.

“I need to compliment All India Football Federation for being proactive and coming on board for bringing this initiative to India,” he added.

“A partnership development meeting involving the key stakeholders of football and law enforcement agencies would also be held at the end of the workshop,” Prabhakaran said.

“This group will be taking the discussion forward and put in place the framework and continue the process of educating all about the manipulation and related issues.”

As part of the programme, the two-day workshop will throw light on various match-fixing scenarios and the links involved in it. A separate session will be devoted to Interpol demonstrating how to combat ‘match-fixing'.

It will involve methods to fight corruption in sports including identifying key stakeholders, importance of information collection and sharing, training and education and how to overcome barriers and motivate key factors.