ISTANBUL, Dec 9 : A Turkish court has jailed 20 suspects, including Super Lig football players, pending trial in a widening football betting investigation, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.

Last week, prosecutors ordered the detention of 46 people, including players, club presidents, commentators and a referee, over insider betting in Turkey's professional leagues.

Anadolu said that among those detained in that operation, Galatasaray player Metehan Baltaci and Fenerbahce player Mert Hakan Yandas, as well as former Adana Demirspor president Murat Sancak, were now formally arrested and jailed.

Anadolu reported Baltaci as telling the court that he had placed bets on a few matches when he was a youth team player and had not done so after he joined the Galatasaray first team.

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