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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Guilty: former Hunter table tennis player bet on fixed matches during COVID

Adam Green in 2009.

A FORMER top Australian table tennis player used inside information and multiple sports betting accounts to place about 1100 bets on fixed matches in Ukraine at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, raking in almost half a million dollars for himself and associates overseas.

Newcastle man Adam Michael Green, now 43, was expected to face a complex trial next month focusing on hundreds of corrupt bets that detectives had alleged were the work of the head of a transnational gambling syndicate.

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