ABSTRACT
Until recently it seemed as if there was no match-fixing in Lithuania, with no information on the subject available and no publicly known investigations. Suddenly in 2011, however, players from the Lithuanian Basketball League (Lietuvos krepšinio lyga – LKL) club Naglis were alleged to have bet on themselves to lose a game by 30 points. 2 Not only was this was the first ever known case of match-fixing in the country, but it occurred in Lithuania’s most beloved sport, its ‘second religion’. Despite this, no public debates about integrity in sport or the possible scale of the problem followed. The LKL and the Lithuanian Basketball Federation (Lietuvos krepšinio federacija – LKF) imposed monetary and disciplinary sanctions 3 – and that was pretty much the end of the story.
