The Ethics Commission of the Russian Handball Federation temporarily suspended eight players from the youth team who took part in the 2021 European Championship in Croatia.

As reported on the FDR website, as a result of the investigation, it was established that a group of players of the Russian national team kept in touch with the persons who were organizing the bets..

FDR President Sergei Shishkarev compared handball players involved in fraud with traitors.

" I equate this with treason.

We are working hard to bring men's handball out of the protracted crisis in which it has found itself in recent years.. However, there is only one way to defeat the disease: to open the abscess and begin treatment as soon as possible, perhaps even surgical, "

At the European Youth Championship, Russian handball players lost seven of the eight matches played in the tournament.

As a result, the Russian national team took 15th place out of 16 teams,.