FK Mohelnice is a

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football club located in

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in the

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. Since the 2018–19 season, it plays in the fifth tier of Czech football. The clubs ''FK Mohelnice'' and ''Tatran Moravičany'' merged in 1995 to become ''FK Mohelnice–Moravičany''. The club has taken part in the

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on a number of occasions.

Controversy

In 2017, the club was purchased by a

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investor. This led to a flurry of seemingly irrational

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activity and suspicions of match fixing. In early 2018, the

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reported their findings about the situation to the

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and the organized crime department launched an investigation of the club and its owners. On 5 February, an unnamed Mohelnice player came forward as a witness, admitting to having been complicit in fixing a Third Division match, being both blackmailed and offered bribes by a teammate to deliberately make defensive errors during the match.

References

External links

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Team profile
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