Police forces in three states were marshalled to gather evidence on matches involving Bernard Tomic, in the end it wasn’t enough for a prosecution.
At 7.30pm on January 11, 2022, professional punter turned online bookie Anthony Waller sent an urgent email to the anti-corruption team at Tennis Australia.
As much as the match met expectations the same could not be said for the betting. Wagers laid by a small number of punters in NSW on Tomic to lose had triggered the alarm in Waller’s company because the same punters had also placed bets on Tomic to lose in a match four months earlier in Istanbul. In the hours after the January 2022 match, the question Waller and other bookmaking firms was asking was whether the NSW punters had been merely lucky in making what Waller described to this masthead as “unusual” bets, or whether something more sinister had occurred.
But the betting patterns uncovered by Waller and his team along with other corporate bookies were enough to trigger not only an urgent meeting of detectives and senior police from NSW and Victoria but formation of a strike force, a tactic used only when investigators believe they need to deploy specialist capacity and resources to deal with a serious suspected crime.
Detectives were assigned to sports integrity teams in the headquarters of both NSW Police and Victoria Police, initially dealing with allegations in the horse-racing industry as well as claims of match fixing in the A-League and lower soccer divisions across the nation. State law enforcement sources who briefed this masthead on condition of anonymity said both police forces agreed to call an urgent meeting in Canberra with Sport Integrity Australia to co-ordinate a response.
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