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Friday April 25, 2008
Entire Sarawak team quizzed in match-fixing probe
By ERIC SAMUEL
PETALING JAYA: Five current players and one former player from the Sarawak Super League team have been detained by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) in connection with a match-fixing probe.
An FA of Sarawak (FAS) official confirmed that the ACA questioned the entire Sarawak team yesterday before taking the five into custody. The former player is believed to be the runner for the bookies.
The ACA began their probe about two months ago when FAS executive secretary Abdul Wahet Uji lodged a report regarding match-fixing in the team.
“I made the report two months ago,” the former Sarawak coach confirmed in a telephone interview from Kuching yesterday.
“It is a shame that things have come to this extent even after a kind soul (Project Management Group chief executive officer Zuraimi Sabki) had come forward to bail out the team from their financial difficulties this season.
“Yes, everyone is talking about it (match-fixing) now but there is no real proof and that is why we alerted the ACA to conduct an investigation.”
Sarawak are currently at the bottom of the 13-team standings on 14 points from four wins, two draws and 16 defeats.
They have also conceded a whopping 60 goals in 22 games and have not won a single away match (10 defeats and a draw) all season.
The FAS were in a real financial mess last season – they did not pay the players’ salaries for six months and even declared themselves bankrupt halfway through the Malaysian Super League (MSL).
However, things improved this season when Zuraimi came forward to bail them out from the debts. The company even managed to raise a few million ringgit to revive Sarawak’s fortunes.
While their off-field matters improved, things continued to worsen on the field.
Sarawak, however, are not the only team facing the match-fixing scourge. Several other teams are also said to be concerned with the resurfacing of the menace.
The Police FA are reported to have hauled up nine players for so-called “poor performances”.
In 1994, more than 100 players were rounded up by police in a nation-wide crackdown on match fixing and many were banned.