October 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nIn a statement sent to AFP Wednesday, the Euroleague said it was suspending Tsaroucha and would hold its own internal review.<\/p>\n
\u201cReferee Vasiliki Tsaroucha is suspended from officiating in all Euroleague Basketball competitions until both the local authorities\u2019 investigation and Euroleague Basketball\u2019s internal review have concluded,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The investigation began after a formal complaint in April by Athens-based club Maroussi, whose coach previously worked for Liolios.<\/p>\n
State TV ERT said eight witnesses have given evidence, including two who allegedly admitted to taking money in return for clemency.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho should I foul out?\u201d read a phone text message allegedly sent by one referee, according to Kathimerini daily.<\/p>\n
Police said on Thursday they had found over 930,000 euros ($1.04 million) in cash in searches of homes.<\/p>\n
The Greek federation said Wednesday its governing board had held an emergency meeting to brief its members on the \u201congoing legal proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n
State news agency ANA said around 50 games in the Greek topflight and lower leagues were under investigation, stretching down to youth and school championships, dating back to 2016.<\/p>\n
Liolios was elected federation chief in 2021. He was previously the chairman of Promitheas Patras who won successive promotions since 2012, reaching the topflight in 2016.<\/p>\n
Under Liolios, Greece won bronze at Eurobasket last year, their first medal since 2009.<\/p>\n
Leading Greek clubs are part of discussions with the US National Basketball Association about creating a new European league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS: Greece\u2019s basketball federation chief and a top referee were among suspects questioned Thursday in a match-fixing probe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,3898,5315,71786,85],"class_list":["post-937064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-greece","tag-investigation","tag-match-fixing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}