5 footballers arrested in HK for alleged rigging
By Min Lee |
May 7, 2010, Friday
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HONG Kong anti-graft authorities have arrested five players for allegedly trying to rig a top division football match in Hong Kong last year.
The territory's Independent Commission Against Corruption yesterday charged one of the suspects, mainland player Yu Yang, with the offense of offering an advantage to an agent. The four others, who were not identified, were to be released on bail later yesterday, the commission said.
Yu, a 27-year-old former defender for Happy Valley who was cut in January, allegedly paid a fellow player for helping to fix a First Division match on October 3.
Commission spokeswoman Agnes Lam declined to identify the match, but Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, citing unidentified sources, reported yesterday the match in question was Fourway Rangers' 2-0 victory over Happy Valley. The arrested players, including other mainlanders, were asked by mainland gambling syndicates to rig the outcome of the match, the Post said.
The Hong Kong Football Association said it had no immediate comment on the allegations, but said in a statement on its Website that it did not tolerate any illegal actions or "behavior that violates the spirit of competition."
In Hong Kong's last major match-fixing scandal, six Hong Kong team players were jailed and banned for life for conspiring to throw a match against Thailand during World Cup qualifying in 1998.
The territory's Independent Commission Against Corruption yesterday charged one of the suspects, mainland player Yu Yang, with the offense of offering an advantage to an agent. The four others, who were not identified, were to be released on bail later yesterday, the commission said.
Yu, a 27-year-old former defender for Happy Valley who was cut in January, allegedly paid a fellow player for helping to fix a First Division match on October 3.
Commission spokeswoman Agnes Lam declined to identify the match, but Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, citing unidentified sources, reported yesterday the match in question was Fourway Rangers' 2-0 victory over Happy Valley. The arrested players, including other mainlanders, were asked by mainland gambling syndicates to rig the outcome of the match, the Post said.
The Hong Kong Football Association said it had no immediate comment on the allegations, but said in a statement on its Website that it did not tolerate any illegal actions or "behavior that violates the spirit of competition."
In Hong Kong's last major match-fixing scandal, six Hong Kong team players were jailed and banned for life for conspiring to throw a match against Thailand during World Cup qualifying in 1998.
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