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According to FIFPro, the players were suspected of having
been involved in match-fixing. "Banik Most's club
directors...are treating their players as potential suspects,
even though there appears to be no clear evidence," said FIFPro.
"FIFPro wants to stress that players are often the victims of
match-fixing. Professional soccer players could be involved, but
match-fixing rarely starts with the players.” FIFPro added that
the use of lie detectors was not efficient in any case and said
it understood that the players had not been paid their salaries
for March.
"Many scientists have criticized the use of the lie detector,"
said FIFPro's legal director Wil van Megen. "They are not
convinced that this tool is the most accurate to determine
whether someone is telling the truth or lying.
"It is a fact that players are more vulnerable to approaches by
match-fixers when their salaries are not paid and are
consequently encountering financial difficulties," he added.
"Therefore FIFPro strongly advises the directors of FC Banik
Most to solve that problem first, before it starts portraying
its own players as criminals." Banik, who spent three years in
the top flight between 2005 and 2008, are one off the bottom of
the table and facing relegation.
(Reporting by Brian Homewood in Turin; editing by Justin Palmer)
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