Two top Croatian soccer officials were under detention for taking bribes and rigging matches, police said on Friday.

Croatia football federation (HNS) vice-president and former referee Zeljko Siric and head of the national refereeing association Stjepan Djedovic had also their cars and houses searched.

Local media reported that the two were detained after taking 30, 000 euros (40,000 dollars) in bribes from an undercover agent to fix Croatia's first division matches.

Croatia launched a probe into suspicious games in late 2009 after receiving information from German police.

The country's anti-graft prosecutor last December charged 19 Croat and two Slovenian nationals suspected of being involved in fixing first division football matches.