IAG MAR 2023

IAG MAR 2023年3月 亞博匯 96 10 YEARS AGO rigged games out of Singapore and which, IAG wrote, included games “in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, North and South America, in elite divisions and in the bushes, wherever players, managers, coaches, referees, team executives, owners, anyone capable of manipulating the action on the pitch, is willing to take a bribe.” Perumal said he was one of six “shareholders” in the organization, which counted another Singaporean called Tan Seet Eng, or Dan Tan for short, as its ringleader. The syndicate was linked to organized crime in eastern Europe and was heavily responsible for the rigging of games across the European continent, particularly in Europe. Ironically, their house of cards began to crumble when Perumal was given US$500,000 to purchase a small Finnish football club for the purposes of match-fixing but instead pocketed US$300,000 to pay off his own gambling debts. He later blamed his arrest on being set-up by his fellow syndicate members. Tan was then one of 14 arrested by Singapore authorities just months after IAG ’s story was published. He served six years in prison for his crimes before being released under supervision in December 2019. Despite that syndicate being disbanded, match-fixing remains an ongoing concern for authorities. As recently as January, 23 members of an alleged betting syndicate were arrested in Spain on suspicion of fixing matches in Spain, Gibraltar and Andorra, with several players among those detained. Meanwhile, sports betting monitoring firm SIS released in February its latest insights which showed suspicious betting activity on 144 matches in 2022, including 46 in Asia – up from 31 a year earlier, Clearly, this is an issue that won’t be disappearing anytime soon. 犯之一。他因為所涉及的罪案，被判處 六年監禁，並在2019年12月假釋出獄。 雖然他們的犯罪組織已被瓦解， 但比賽造假依然是當局所擔心的一個問 題。即使到了今年一月，依然有23名疑 似投注組織的成員，因涉嫌在西班牙、 直布羅陀和安道爾比賽造假，而在西班 牙落網。 另外，運動投注監察企業SIS就於 2月公佈其最新行業洞見，當中顯示在 2022年有144場賽事出現可疑的投注行 為，其中有46場在亞洲舉行，比起一年 前的31場有所上升。顯然，這問題不會 在短期內消失不見。