China issues lifetime bans to 38 players and five club officials for match-fixing
September 10 – China’s purge of football-related corruption has reached unprecedented levels after the country banned 43 people for life over allegations of match-fixing, bribery and other forms of wrongdoing.
With the national team still performing woefully on the pitch details have been released of a “two-year investigation that uncovered a series of online gambling, match-fixing and bribery cases.”
The state-run news agency Xinhua said 120 matches in domestic leagues, 128 criminal suspects and 41 clubs were implicated in the investigation.
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