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A referee dies, a market shrugs, and the World Cup's officiating crisis gets a body count
Dutch official Rob Dieperink, dropped from the World Cup over a UK police investigation, has died aged 38. A prediction market puts the odds of another officiating reversal at 2%.

Desk note: Monexus treated the BBC Sport report as the primary factual source and the Polymarket contract as a market-data input rather than a news claim. The underlying UK police investigation is referenced but not characterised, on the principle that an unresolved inquiry deserves less ink than a confirmed one.
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