FIFA investigates match-fixing

LONDON: Football’s ruling body Fifa is investigating claims that over 300 matches on three continents were influenced by match-fixers.

Fifa suspects match officials were paid as little as $10,000 to help engineer specific results in international friendly matches and European club games, netting fixers hundreds of millions of dollars on Asian betting markets.

“The threat from match-fixing to the integrity of the global game is significant,” said Chris Eaton, head of security at Fifa.

Employees from at least six different national football associations are under suspicion of assisting the criminal network, which is thought to work out of Singapore and Malaysia.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2011.