The case is set to go to trial by mid-year after a judge granted a prosecutors' request.
Prosecutors suspect players from Montpellier, who had already won the title, deliberately lost a match against Cesson-Rennes Metropole in May 2012.
Karabatic, who helped France clinch their fifth world title in February against host nation Qatar, left Montpellier in 2013.
The 30-year-old, who won gold with France at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, now plays for Barcelona in the Spanish league.
(Reporting by Julie Rimbert, writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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