Elye Wahi, the Ivory Coast footballer who is playing at the 2026 World Cup, was arrested on suspicion of fixing offences less than two weeks before the tournament, The Athletic can reveal.
Sources with knowledge of events, who like others spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly, confirmed the 23-year-old is the subject of an active investigation, which is seeking to establish whether Wahi, while playing for his club side Nice, deliberately earned a yellow card against Metz on May 17.
Wahi was subsequently arrested by the French police on May 29, immediately after starring with two goals in a win over Saint-Etienne that kept Nice in Ligue 1, France’s top division.
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