Six people have been arrested in Taiwan suspected of accepting online gambling bets in a baseball match fixing scandal, Reuters reported.

Baseball is Taiwan’s most popular gambling sport, and is losing public interest on account of recent betting scandals, with the government vowing to crack down on internet gambling.

Further investigation is expected, as the authorities try to figure out which players may have been bribed into a deliberate lack of effort, the Reuters report said.

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