HONG KONG - Hong Kong authorities have arrested 11 footballers from the same team over allegations of match-fixing in a domestic league, the city’s anti-graft body said on Tuesday. After a year-long investigation, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on...
The suspected footballers would either play passively so their team would lose to a weaker rival, or they sought to achieve a certain score that was unpopular and at high odds, she added.
The group and some of the players then bet on these results in an illegally organised scheme for profits. The arrested players and the coach belonged to the same club, which ICAC did not name. It would only say that they belong to a First Division team that had played 26 matches and won eight in the 2022-23 season.
Local media, however, cited sources as saying they were from Happy Valley, one of Hong Kong’s oldest football clubs.ICAC said it has yet to come up with the total amount of money involved as the probe is still ongoing. - AFP
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