Shameful and Despicable CPIB and Making Singapore Famous in Football Match Fixing

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Dear brothers and sisters

tak boleh tahan.

Singapore is very famous in football match fixing and all is because of CPIB inefficiency and fixing its dissents instead of catching the real football fixing culprits and BBC is lauging at Singapore.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24340863

Can Singapore tackle its match-fixing stain?

Singapore, South East Asia's wealthy island city-state, has a reputation for being safe and stable. Its squeaky-clean image, however, only goes skin deep, argues British writer and journalist Neil Humphreys, who has tracked Singapore's football match-fixing for many years.

1994 Singapore is first nation to convict a FIFA referee, T Rajamanickam, for match fixing.
1995 Singapore-based footballers Abbas Saad and Michal Vana found guilty of conspiracy to fix results in the Malaysian Premier League competition.
1995 Wilson Raj Perumal jailed in Singapore for a year for bribing a football team captain to lose a match.
2001 Singapore's professional football league, the S-League, becomes the first to introduce compulsory polygraph tests for players.
2009 Zimbabwe Football Association's (Zifa) concludes that national team players were paid to lose matches by an Asian betting syndicate.
September 2010 Perumal, posing as an accredited match agent, fixes a friendly between Bahrain and Togo, a team entirely made up of imposters.
November 2010 In Italy, Cremonese goalkeeper, Marco Paolini, spikes his team's water bottles so that they lose a match. The third division side suddenly felt tired in a game against Paganese. One player crashed his car on the way home.
April 2011 Fifa's then head of security, Chris Eaton, tells The New Paper in Singapore that Fifa had unearthed an "an academy" of match-fixers in the country.
June 2011 In a Finnish courtroom, Perumal claims to be one of six key members of a multinational match-fixing consortium and earned five to six million euros.
February 2012 Perumal completes a year of his sentence and is extradited to Hungary. Under house arrest, he continues to assist Hungarian authorities with their match-fixing probe.
February 2013 Europol investigators claim that 680 matches worldwide were fixed by syndicates with links to Singapore and Dan Tan.
June 2013 In Singapore, three Lebanese match officials found guilty of accepting sex as an inducement to rig an AFC match. All three are jailed.
September 2013 Six members of Victorian Premier League Southern Stars arrested in Australia and charged over an alleged international match-fixing ring.
September 2013 Fourteen individuals with alleged links to a match-fixing syndicate, including its leader, are arrested following a 12-hour operation in Singapore. Local media reports that Dan Tan is the "leader" arrested.


Having played for Manchester United and England, Paul Parker thought he had seen it all. Two Premier League titles and a World Cup semi-final, the retired English full-back never thought of himself as naive. But Singapore opened his eyes.

"In 17 years playing football in the UK, I never heard a single allegation about match-fixing. In three years in Singapore, those allegations have now reached double figures," said Mr Parker, who runs a football academy in Singapore.

"I've had professional footballers tell me they think they've played in fixed games."


But whatever happens to Perumal - and Mr Ding in the coming weeks - this isn't the end of Singapore's links to international football corruption. It's barely the beginning.

The match-fixers are proving to be the most stubborn of stains on Singapore's otherwise clean image. They cannot be entirely scrubbed away.

Neil Humphreys is a Singapore-based football writer and author of the best-selling novel Match Fixer.


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