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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.
Election for president of FAT on Feb 8
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 25/11/2023
» The next election for the Football Association of Thailand president will be held on Feb 8, 2024, the FAT said on Friday.
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.
US to disburse $92m to FIFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF in wake of corruption probe
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» NEW YORK: FIFA and other entities injured in the global football corruption scheme that exploded in 2015 are set to receive another $92 million in compensation, the US Department of Justice said Thursday.
US hands FIFA $201m confiscated taken from corrupt officials
AFP, Published on 25/08/2021
» PARIS: The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand FIFA $201 million confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday.
15 sentenced, fined for football bribes
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/03/2021
» The Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced 15 people, including eight former Thai Premier League footballers, to between one and five years in prison, in a major match-fixing case that started in 2017.
Intarat appointed interim International Weightlifting Federation chief
Sports, Published on 16/10/2020
» Thailand's Maj Gen Intarat Yodbangtoey has taken over as interim president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after Ursula Papandrea of the United States was removed from the post in a boardroom putsch.
FIFA on trial as Valcke, Al-Khelaifi trial begins in Swiss court
AFP, Published on 13/09/2020
» LAUSANNE - FIFA's disgraced former secretary general Jerome Valcke and Paris Saint-Germain chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi go on trial in Switzerland on Monday in the latest chapter of football's seemingly endless corruption saga.