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China issues 73 life bans, punishes top football clubs for match-fixing
AFP, Published on 29/01/2026
» BEIJING - China's football association issued lifetime bans to 73 people, including former national team head coach Li Tie, and punished 13 top professional clubs for match-fixing and corruption, it said Thursday.
Twenty-six charged in latest basketball gambling scandal
AFP, Published on 16/01/2026
» LOS ANGELES - Twenty-six people have been charged with fixing US college and Chinese professional basketball games in an alleged transnational criminal conspiracy, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
Corruption blamed for China’s football woes
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» China’s government has blamed corruption for the dismal track record of its men’s football team in a documentary featuring confessions of bribe-taking.
Ex-chair of Tokyo Olympics sponsor handed suspended jail sentence
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» TOKYO: The former chairman of a Tokyo 2020 Olympics sponsor was handed a suspended prison sentence Friday along with two others, in the first convictions in a spiralling bribery scandal surrounding the event.
Tokyo Olympics exec arrested over bribery allegations
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» TOKYO: A board member for the Tokyo Olympics was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of taking bribes, prosecutors said, along with three other men connected to the scandal.
English football club readied for sale to 'criminal' - report
AFP, Published on 10/08/2021
» DOHA: An investigation by the Al Jazeera broadcaster to be released Monday found that middlemen were prepared to enable a fictitious criminal investor to buy a storied English football club.
Fifagate: appeals denied for two key former LatAm officials
AFP, Published on 23/06/2020
» NEW YORK: A US court on Monday dismissed appeals by two former leaders of Latin American football who were convicted over their roles at the heart of the "Fifagate" corruption scandal.
New bribe details on 2018, 2022 World Cup votes as execs charged
AFP, Published on 07/04/2020
» NEW YORK - Two former executives with US media giant Fox were charged with corruption, bank fraud and money-laundering on Monday as US federal prosecutors shed fresh light on the scandal-tainted bidding war for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Japan Olympic chief quits in face of corruption charges
AFP, Published on 20/03/2019
» TOKYO: The head of Japan's Olympic Committee said Tuesday he would step down in June, as French authorities probe his involvement in payments made before Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Games.
Infantino says FIFA was 'clinically dead' when he took over
AFP, Published on 13/06/2018
» MOSCOW - FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that world football's governing body was "clinically dead" when he took over following a corruption scandal that engulfed his predecessor Sepp Blatter.