ROME, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Italian Soccer Federation FIGC has launched an investigation into dozens of games from last season suspected of having been fixed for betting scams, local media reported Friday.

    According to the report on Thursday, FIGC took possession of eight boxfuls of documentation and wiretaps compiled by Genoa prosecutors during a criminal probe into 42 professional encounters, including several in Serie A.

    The scandal first broke in the summer, when investigators uncovered evidence that a second division match between Genoa and Venezia was bought by the former.

    As a result Genoa, which had won promotion to the top flight, was relegated to the third division.

    This week Italian newspapers have published wiretapped conversations between Italian gamblers which seem to show that they knew the results of many games before they were played.

    The news prompted FIGC to reopen its own match-fixing investigation.

    Games on the suspect list include Juventus' 2-2 draw in Livorno, played on May 22, AC Milan's 3-3 tie at home to Palermo the Friday

    before and Inter Milan's 1-0 victory over Sampdoria the previous week.

    According to newspaper reports, in one conversation, a gambler even managed to predict the exact result and the scorers of the Messina-Livorno tie on the last day of the season.

    If there is evidence to suggest the matches were arranged in advance, both FIGC and the criminal prosecutors will try to workout whether the games were fixed in collusion with the gamblers, orwere agreed on for "sporting" reasons and the betters simply gottipped off by insiders, the report said. Enditem