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12 players and coaches arrested over football match-fixing in Hong Kong

Twelve people, including nine professional football players, were arrested by ICAC for allegedly offering and accepting bribes for match-fixing in the local Premier League and the Second Division.

The arrestees, aged 24 to 54, are the head coach and two players of a Premier League football club; the coach and four players of a Second Division club; the player of another Second Division football team; as well as three illegal betting agents who are respectively head coach and players of three other local football clubs.

The clubs that are suspected of participating in the scheme are North District FC, Sham Shui Po Association and St. Joseph’s Football Club.

It was learned that the illegal bets placed by individual arrestees in one season amounted to over HK$1 million.

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