Handball-Prosecution asks for suspended jail sentence in Karabatic match-fixing case

ByReuters

Published 22/06/2015 at 17:45 GMT

Prosecutors on Monday requested a three-month suspended prison sentence and a 20,000 euro ($22,725) fine for French handball champion Nikola Karabatic in a match-fixing trial that concludes this week.

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Karabatic, along with his brother and 14 others, went on trial in mid-June over suspicions players from Montpellier, who had already won the title, deliberately lost a match against Cesson-Rennes Metropole in May 2012.

Karabatic, who helped France clinch their fifth world title in February against host nation Qatar, left Montpellier in 2013.

The 30-year-old, who denies any wrongdoing, won gold with France at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and now plays for Barcelona in the Spanish league.

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The length of time the sentence would be suspended for was not given, as is the custom in France. ($1 = 0.8801 euros)

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