Singaporean jailed for fixing football match...

An Indian-origin Singaporean has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for fixing a football league match by bribing the referee and a national-level player of Indian-descent here, a media report said today.

Selvarajan Letchuman, 52, had yesterday admitted to one charge of corruption and two cheating charges involving S$15,500 ($11,111)

He had fixed the results of a May 2012 match between Singapore and Sarawak teams in the Malaysian Super League by bribing Malaysian referee Shokri Nor, 50, and Thanasegar S Sinnaiah, 40, an Indian-origin Malaysian national football player.

Singapore’s LionXII won the May 22 match by 3-0.

 The results won Selavarajan S$20,625 bets placed with the Singapore Pool, which runs lotteries and betting on football. Prior to the match week, Selavarajan had worked out an arrangement on bet sharing with Shokri and Thanasegar. Full story...

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