Swedish Referees get the eyeball

The Swedish referee Ulf Rönnmark, who has a job with a gambling concern, is upset that he cannot report to work as usual and referee a professional hockey match. He thinks it a "strange situation" that he is under review.

This is incredible. How can it appear strange when the referre has a direct effect on the game and presumably has a financial stake in the outcome? This is a true conflict of interest and a shocking lack of ethics. Doesn't it say somewhere in the contract the referees sign that they cannot gamble on the game nor work for a company that profits from gambling? Just the simplest of precautions would have prevented this.

Belatedly the Swedish hockey league is looking into the matter and checking all the referees. If I were a coach I would look at game tape closely to make a case that they are all corrupt, you might be right.