Soccer probe: 7 face trial
By Zhang Xuanchen |
December 7, 2010, Tuesday
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Seven former top Chinese soccer officials are to stand trial on charges ranging from taking bribes to negligence of duty early next year, with police saying the country's largest investigation into soccer corruption is close to an end.
Police told Soccer News there was enough evidence to indict the seven, all former key figures in the Chinese Football Association, China's football governing body, for accepting bribes to manipulate match results.
Nan Yong, former head of the CFA; Xie Yalong, Nan's predecessor; and Yang Yimin, former vice chairman of the CFA, will face charges of taking bribes and negligence of duty, the newspaper said yesterday.
Li Dongsheng, former director of the referees committee; Wei Shaohui, ex-manager of China's national team; and Zhang Jianqiang, former director of women's soccer, will face charges of taking bribes, while Fang Guangming, a former senior official, is charged with taking bribes and gambling.
Police said they had collected more than 70 kilograms of documents, phone records and other types of evidence to put before the court but didn't reveal any more details about the case, Soccer News reported.
A nationwide investigation into the CFA was launched last year, which led to the arrest of club managers, players and referees over alleged cheating in games. The investigation soon extended to a handful of high-ranking officials for alleged involvement in match fixing and gambling in games ranging from league matches to international encounters.
The suspects are alleged to have collaborated with other senior officials to accept millions of yuan in bribes to fix the outcome of games and place players on or off the payroll of the national team, according to the Yangtze Evening News.
Some players and managers are said to have paid cash if they wanted to get on the national team. It was widely accepted that a player could pay 100,000 yuan (US$14,800) to 300,000 yuan to be picked to play for his country.
Police told Soccer News there was enough evidence to indict the seven, all former key figures in the Chinese Football Association, China's football governing body, for accepting bribes to manipulate match results.
Nan Yong, former head of the CFA; Xie Yalong, Nan's predecessor; and Yang Yimin, former vice chairman of the CFA, will face charges of taking bribes and negligence of duty, the newspaper said yesterday.
Li Dongsheng, former director of the referees committee; Wei Shaohui, ex-manager of China's national team; and Zhang Jianqiang, former director of women's soccer, will face charges of taking bribes, while Fang Guangming, a former senior official, is charged with taking bribes and gambling.
Police said they had collected more than 70 kilograms of documents, phone records and other types of evidence to put before the court but didn't reveal any more details about the case, Soccer News reported.
A nationwide investigation into the CFA was launched last year, which led to the arrest of club managers, players and referees over alleged cheating in games. The investigation soon extended to a handful of high-ranking officials for alleged involvement in match fixing and gambling in games ranging from league matches to international encounters.
The suspects are alleged to have collaborated with other senior officials to accept millions of yuan in bribes to fix the outcome of games and place players on or off the payroll of the national team, according to the Yangtze Evening News.
Some players and managers are said to have paid cash if they wanted to get on the national team. It was widely accepted that a player could pay 100,000 yuan (US$14,800) to 300,000 yuan to be picked to play for his country.
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