The huge budget helped TP Mazembe win the African Champions League title in 2009 for the first time in more than 40 years, and with it qualification for the FIFA Club World Cup, a competition that pits the champions from the ruling body's six confederations against each other.

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Last month Dein, who has a network of worldwide contacts, travelled to Nigeria for the Under-17 World Cup - a competition where six Fifa executive members were in attendance - following an invitation from Fifa and Confederation of African Football member Amos Adamu.

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According to Europol, match-fixing is suspected in games including qualifiers for the sport's two biggest international tournaments the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship as well as Europe's top club competition, the UEFA Champions League.

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The competition acts as a warmup for the 2014 World Cup in the same country, during which FIFA also intends to use GLT.

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