Under a new 10-year agreement, Interpol will receive around £3.5million from FIFA in the first two years followed by £1.3million in each of the following eight to try to wipe out the illegal betting rings which FIFA president Sepp Blatter said struck at the heart of FIFA's credibility.
Blatter said: "Match fixing shakes the very foundations of sport. We are committed to doing everything in our power to tackle this threat. We have to try to put an end to these activities.
Commissioner Friedhelm Althans of Germany, who heads the Bochum inquiry into match fixing, gave a stark picture of the extent of the problem across Europe.
He explained: "We know about 300 matches in 20 countries where we have the suspicion that they may have manipulated.
"The matches concerned involve mainly lower-ranking leagues but it goes all the way up to national teams, Champions League matches and Europa League matches.
"We have to do everything in our power to keep the sport clean," said Interpol general-secretary Ronald Noble. "Corruption in sport is so damaging."During the 2010 World Cup, we ran an operation out of Malaysia, China, Singapore and Thailand," he said.
"During a one-month operation, 5,000 arrests were made, in excess of 26million dollars (£16million) in cash were seized and illegal gambling dens which handled more than two billion dollars (£1.2billion) worth of bets were closed."
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