The referee trio involved in the fraud was banned by the FA of BiH in 2011!

The three referees who, according to a FIFA report published by The New York Times, were involved in an attempted match-fixing of friendly games before the last World Cup in 2010 in South Africa are, as reported by the media, Siniša Zrnić, Kenan Bajramović and Rizah Ridžalović, reports the BiH news agency Patria (NAP).

According to the report, they were supposed to officiate and fix the match between the United States and the host nation of the championship. However, the fraud, orchestrated by an organization from Singapore, was discovered in advance and a different referee trio officiated the match.

However, it is known that these three referees were permanently banned from football by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina back in 2011.

It was discovered that they traveled to Turkey without the consent of the BiH refereeing organization and officiated, also most likely, a fixed match between Bolivia and Latvia. Interestingly, one of the referees, Rizah Ridžalović, is listed in the FIFA report under the name Ratko Kunić, but the FA of BiH, while investigating the fraud in Turkey, discovered that it was Rizah Ridžalović who introduced himself falsely because he "looks like Kunić", reports NAP.

The secret FIFA report on the fixing of friendly matches has attracted great attention, given that it was leaked to the public just a few days before the start of the World Cup in Brazil.