AFC sets up task force against fixing
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February 23, 2013, Saturday
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THE Asian Football Confederation has set up a task force to help combat match-fixing in the continent, the sport's regional governing body said yesterday.
The announcement came a day after an Interpol-led conference into result rigging closed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The task force would collaborate with all stakeholders and educate member associations on ways to combat the practice and introduce mechanisms to fight it, AFC General Secretary Alex Soosay said in a statement.
"By setting up this task force, we would like to coordinate the education, training and implementation of measures through one platform," he said.
Earlier this month, European anti-crime agency Europol said hundreds of soccer matches were fixed in a global betting scam run from Singapore.
It also identified about 680 suspicious matches, including qualifying games for the World Cup, European Championships, and the Champions League.
Tan Seet Eng, a Singaporean also known as Dan Tan, has been accused of heading an organization to fix matches worldwide and Italian police have issued an arrest warrant for him. Italian police arrested a fugitive associate of the alleged match-fixing kingpin on Thursday after the 31-year-old Slovenian, a former player, flew in from Singapore to hand himself over to authorities.
The announcement came a day after an Interpol-led conference into result rigging closed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The task force would collaborate with all stakeholders and educate member associations on ways to combat the practice and introduce mechanisms to fight it, AFC General Secretary Alex Soosay said in a statement.
"By setting up this task force, we would like to coordinate the education, training and implementation of measures through one platform," he said.
Earlier this month, European anti-crime agency Europol said hundreds of soccer matches were fixed in a global betting scam run from Singapore.
It also identified about 680 suspicious matches, including qualifying games for the World Cup, European Championships, and the Champions League.
Tan Seet Eng, a Singaporean also known as Dan Tan, has been accused of heading an organization to fix matches worldwide and Italian police have issued an arrest warrant for him. Italian police arrested a fugitive associate of the alleged match-fixing kingpin on Thursday after the 31-year-old Slovenian, a former player, flew in from Singapore to hand himself over to authorities.
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