Ivory Coast’s World Cup star Elye Wahi ‘arrested over match-fixing offences’

The 23-year-old was arrested by French police and is the subject of an active investigation

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Ivory Coast star Elye Wahi was reportedly arrested less than two weeks before the 2026 Fifa World Cup on suspicion of match-fixing offences.

A report in The Athletic details that 23-year-old Wahi is the subject of an “active investigation” to establish whether the forward deliberately earned a yellow card while playing for Nice against Metz in Ligue 1 on 17 May.

The report adds that Wahi, who started…