ANKARA :A huge investigation into insider betting in Turkey's soccer leagues is likely to widen and include coaches, commentators and club chairmen, a prosecutor was cited as saying on Thursday.

Earlier this month, Turkey's football federation suspended 149 referees and assistants after an investigation found that officials in the professional leagues were betting on games.

The net widened last week with the arrest of eight people, including the chairman of a top-tier club, and the suspension of 1,024 players from all leagues, on whom the football federation (TFF) imposed bans. Matches in the second and third-tier leagues were suspended for two weeks.

"We may carry out another operation in the coming days. We want to clean our football, absolutely," Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Akin Gurlek

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