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Korean players indicted over match-fixing scandal
Giuseppe Signori, right, arrives at the Cremona court, Italy, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Former Lazio captain Giuseppe Signori was among 16 people arrested last week for alleged involvement in a match-fixing and betting ring throughout Italy. The prosecutor leading the latest inquiry into match-fixing in Italy believes there are “big problems” for Serie A. Cremona prosecutor Roberto Di Martino has been coordinating questioning for several of the 16 people arrested across Italy last week. Di Martino said last week that the inquiry is focused on 18 matches mostly in Serie B and C, but key suspects in the case have reportedly divulged information about top division games that were fixed. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ten football players were among 14 people indicted for alleged involvement in a Korean match-fixing scandal, prosecutors said Thursday. 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 prosecutors 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 in-
dicted for allegedly handing bribes to players to have them fix games’ results, it said. South Korean media said the two brokers were indicted last week while the rest were indicted Thursday. A former K-League player, who allegedly worked as another broker, was found dead in an apparent suicide last week. The highest-profile player implicated so far in the scandal is Kim Dong-hyun, who is currently contracted to the league’s military club Sangju Sangmu and has made six appearances for the national team. Kim was arrested last week for allegedly introducing other players to “fixers” who then bet large sums of money on illegal online gambling sites. The Defense Ministry said Thursday that military prosecutors were reviewing whether to indict him.
Sports back calls for harsh criminal penalties Neil Frankland, AP Sports
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest-profile sports are backing a government push to make sports corruption a crime with penalties of up to 10 years in prison. The coalition comprising football, cricket, both rugby codes, tennis, Australian Rules football and netball national administrators met with federal Sports Minister Mark Arbib on Wednesday
to support the push for tougher penalties and seek the right for sports to have an automatic veto on certain kinds of spot betting if suspicious gambling patterns emerge. Arbib will meet with his state counterparts on Friday to discuss the uniform, nationwide penalties to combat illegal gambling and the leaking of inside sporting information for financial gain.