A football club in the fourth tier of Finnish football has become a tool of organised criminals involved in sports betting, according to Turun Sanomat.
TS interviewed Francesco Baranca, a sports integrity expert, who follows live betting markets during sports events to try and identify manipulation.
He says that one club's performances this season can only be explained by criminal involvement.
"The numbers are so absurd that there's no doubt about the manipulation," said Baranca. "The games are one hundred percent manipulated, you can't explain them any other way."
Baranca estimated that the criminals have earned more than a million euros in profits from the Finnish club's matches. He says some of the club's players and backroom figures have links to other teams in Kakkonen, the fourth tier of Finnish football, and Kolmonen, the level below that.
The clubs are geographically spread across different regions of Finland.
Baranca has investigated match-fixing for more than a decade. Until last spring he worked for the Ukrainian football federation heading up their ethics committee.
Finnish FA keeps watch on "certain clubs"
Marco Casagrande, Secretary General of the Finnish Football Association, told TS that the association has been following suspicious events in the club's matches.
"We know that there are grounds to follow certain clubs, and they have been tracked," Casagrande told TS.
TS reports that games involving the club in question are not offered for betting by the Finnish state owned gambling monopoly, Veikkaus.
However foreign bookmakers are able to offer odds on the games thanks to data scouts attending the matches and submitting realtime data for operators in Asia, for example.