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LUCERNE, Switzerland -- UEFA have asked police organization Europol to investigate 15 cases of suspected matchfixing officials confirmed in Lucerne on Saturday.
Platini will organize a meeting into corruption in football next year.
The officials also said that UEFA president Michel Platini, in collaboration with the European Union's Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, had agreed to organize a meeting next year in Brussels into matchfixing, corruption and money-laundering in football.
UEFA would not say which games were involved but Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, in an edition to be published on Monday, reported that a total of 26 games had attracted suspicion, including three in the third preliminary round of the Champions League, two in the UEFA Cup and one in the qualifiers for Euro 2008.
Der Spiegel said that five UEFA officials visited the Europol headquarters in The Hague during early November to deliver a 96-page dossier outlining suspicions that games were being fixed.
Fifteen of the suspect games were played this season with the the other 11 between July 2005 and November 2006, Der Spiegel said.
They chiefly involved teams from eastern and southern Europe notably Bulgaria, Georgia, Serbia and Croatia but also the Baltic states in the north.
The magazine said the UEFA report detailed millions of euros being pocketed by Asian betting syndicates based on the results of these games.
This week, UEFA began an investigation into the Intertoto Cup match between Bulgarians Cherno More and Macedonia's Makedonija on July 7, which Cherno More won 4-0.
The Bulgarian club strongly denies any wrongdoing.
"It's an extremely unpleasant case but we think that the charges are unwarranted," Cherno More's lawyer Mihail Statev said at a news conference on Tuesday. E-mail to a friend 
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