Singapore fixer has no regrets
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NOTORIOUS Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal has said he has “no regrets” despite gambling away the millions he earned through rigging nearly 100 games worldwide over two decades.
Perumal told CNN he earned “five to six million dollars” from influencing “80-100” matches in his two-decade fixing career. But the 49-year-old Singaporean said he had squandered away all his illicit earnings because of a gambling habit.
“I have no regrets. It was like, it was a phase of my life and I enjoyed it and I traveled around the world. I had a good time,” Perumal said.
He said there was little guilt involved in being a match-fixer.
“It (football) is no longer a sport. It is more like a business now. We are just trying to make money out of this business,” he said. He said about 80 percent of fixed matches were “successful.”
“I was on the bench at times, and telling players what to do, giving orders to the coach. It was that easy. There was no policing whatsoever,” he said.
(But) “There is no litmus to a player’s honesty or commitment level,” Perumal said.
Perumal is currently in Hungary, where he is under police protection and assisting match-fixing investigators. He was arrested in Finland in 2011 and served one year of a two-year sentence for fixing top-tier games there.
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