Three Convicted in Hong Kong's Major Football Match-Fixing Scandal
A Hong Kong court has convicted two footballers and a betting agent in the city's most significant match-fixing case in years. They were found guilty of bribing players to manipulate game outcomes.
A Hong Kong court has convicted two footballers and a betting agent of bribing fellow players to rig game outcomes in the cityβs largest match-fixing case in recent years. Former Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok was convicted on Friday of five charges, including three counts of offering an advantage to an agent in violation of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The 32-year-old Nigerian-born defender, together with fellow player Luciano Silva da Silva, 38, and betting agent Waheed Mohammad,....