Greece Super League – Asteras allegedly bribed Olympiakos Volou

Football prosecutor Andreas Fakos has filed charges against Super League struggler Asteras Tripolis for bribing Olympiakos Volou last season, which is likely to bring about the relegation of the Peloponnesian side.

A Thessaloniki radio station revealed on Thursday that Fakos is accusing Asteras president Giorgos Borovilos of giving the then Olympiakos Volou owner Achilleas Beos 500,000 euros before the two teams met at Tripoli in March 2011, a game that Asteras won 2-1.

According to municipal radio station FM100, the prosecutor is alleging that the two men agreed before the game on a cash transaction so that Asteras would improve its position in the Super League table last season and avoid relegation.

Beos allegedly accepted the money, “with Olympiakos Volou players being instructed by Achilleas Beos to underperform in that particular game,” according to the prosecutor.

The case is to be heard on Friday by the Super League’s Disciplinary Committee.

Asteras Tripolis will be automatically relegated if found guilty, while Olympiakos Volou has already been sent to the fourth division for its involvement in other match-fixing cases.