The Danish FA (DBU) "has called on the country's government to set up a special court and increase resources to investigators to deal with match-fixing and other forms of corruption in sport," according to Philip O'Connor of REUTERS.
Culture Minister Marianne Jelved presented a bill to the Danish parliament last week that would "criminalise corruption in sport and make the fight against match-fixing a pre-requisite for state funding."
In a statement released on Monday, the DBU "welcomed the proposals but said that they didn't go far enough."
The governing body "called for more resources for police investigating match-fixing, stiffer penalties for those found guilty and the establishment of a 'special court with specialised knowledge' for sports corruption cases" (REUTERS, 1/26).
TOUGH TIMES: INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL's Samindra Kunti reported the Dutch FA (KNVB) and the Dutch parliament "want to tighten the application of the 'football law' (Law MBVEO)." The proposed amendments "are aimed at further reducing violence and incidents at Dutch football grounds."
For many years the KNVB "has advocated for better regulation of violence and safety in Dutch football." In '07 that finally resulted in new legislation, but "violence at Dutch club football still persists." Ajax Amsterdam and Rotterdam's Feyenoord "are two clubs with notoriously hardcore fans."
The KNVB "is proposing ammendments to the law that will make it much tougher and bring in a broader range of prosecution powers against the perpetrators of violence." The rationale is that troublemakers at grounds "should be punished harder and faster" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 1/26).
