Police arrested the president of Champions League hopefuls Trabzonspor and the former head of Turkey's football federation on Monday as part of a widening match-fixing probe, a report said. Sadri Sener, whose club were runners-up in last season's Turkish championship, was detained in a series of early morning raids, only days after the president of the champions Fenerbahce was also arrested.
Sener and former national federation chief Mahmut Ozgener are now being questioned at the national police headquarters in Istanbul, acccording to media reports. Ozgener's former advisor Mumtaz Karakaya was also among the arrests, NTV news channel said. The latest arrest wave includes Mehmet Levent Kizil, the former executive committee member of the federation, and Ankaragucu teams' goalkeeper Serdar Kulbilge, media reports said.