In Korea and Finland
KOREAN PLAYERS INDICTED OVER MATCH-FIXING SCANDAL
Ten players were among 14 people indicted on Thursday for alleged involvement in a Korean football match-fixing scandal.
Nine K-League players were indicted for allegedly taking bribes to influence the outcome of games in April, a local prosecution office in the southeastern city of Changwon said in a statement.
Eight were from Daejeon Citizen and one was from Gwangju, according to the prosecution and the Korea Football Association.
The prosecution statement did not identify the players.
Another player, from 2009 Asian champions Pohang Steelers, was indicted for allegedly betting on one of his own team’s games after learning the outcome would be rigged, the statement said.
Four non-players, including two gambling brokers, were also indicted for allegedly handing bribes to players to have them fix games’ results, it said.
A former K-League player, who allegedly worked as another broker, was found dead in an apparent suicide last week.
TRIAL OPENS AGAINST 10 IN FINLAND MATCH-FIXING
A trial in a match-fixing scandal has opened in Finland with charges of bribery read against a Singaporean man suspected of paying nine former players at a local club to influence the outcome of games.
The Lapland District Court says Wilson Raj Perumal allegedly paid members of Rovaniemen Palloseura in 2010-2011 and players at two other Finnish league clubs in 2008-2011.
The nine former Rovaniemi team members — seven Zambians and two Georgians — were charged with accepting bribes at the same hearing on Thursday in this small town on the Arctic Circle.
Last month, a court convicted two Zambian brothers from another Finnish club of taking €50,000 ($72,500) in bribes from Perumal to influence the outcome of a game.
Indictments in soccer match-fixing
In Korea and Finland
KOREAN PLAYERS INDICTED OVER MATCH-FIXING SCANDAL
Ten players were among 14 people indicted on Thursday for alleged involvement in a Korean football match-fixing scandal.
Nine K-League players were indicted for allegedly taking bribes to influence the outcome of games in April, a local prosecution office in the southeastern city of Changwon said in a statement.
Eight were from Daejeon Citizen and one was from Gwangju, according to the prosecution and the Korea Football Association.
The prosecution statement did not identify the players.
Another player, from 2009 Asian champions Pohang Steelers, was indicted for allegedly betting on one of his own team’s games after learning the outcome would be rigged, the statement said.
Four non-players, including two gambling brokers, were also indicted for allegedly handing bribes to players to have them fix games’ results, it said.
A former K-League player, who allegedly worked as another broker, was found dead in an apparent suicide last week.
TRIAL OPENS AGAINST 10 IN FINLAND MATCH-FIXING
A trial in a match-fixing scandal has opened in Finland with charges of bribery read against a Singaporean man suspected of paying nine former players at a local club to influence the outcome of games.
The Lapland District Court says Wilson Raj Perumal allegedly paid members of Rovaniemen Palloseura in 2010-2011 and players at two other Finnish league clubs in 2008-2011.
The nine former Rovaniemi team members — seven Zambians and two Georgians — were charged with accepting bribes at the same hearing on Thursday in this small town on the Arctic Circle.
Last month, a court convicted two Zambian brothers from another Finnish club of taking €50,000 ($72,500) in bribes from Perumal to influence the outcome of a game.