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        "msgid": "malaysian-booters-confess-to-match-rigging-report-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-12-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Malaysian booters confess to match-rigging: Report",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Malaysian booters confess to match-rigging: Report KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Three Malaysian footballers were yesterday reported to having confessed to fixing matches in the national premier league, as the nation's soccer fans remained stunned over the scale of alleged corruption in the game. Over the past two months, some 51 footballers have been arrested for suspected match-rigging.",
        "content": "<p>Malaysian booters confess to match-rigging: Report<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Three Malaysian footballers were yesterday<br>\nreported to having confessed to fixing matches in the national<br>\npremier league, as the nation's soccer fans remained stunned over<br>\nthe scale of alleged corruption in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two months, some 51 footballers have been<br>\narrested for suspected match-rigging. The Sun daily reported<br>\nyesterday that three had so far admitted guilt and evidence was<br>\nmounting for a court case against them.<\/p>\n<p>\"Police who checked entries in the players' bank accounts are<br>\nshocked at the amount of some transactions,\" the English-language<br>\npaper said in a front-page story, quoting a senior police<br>\nofficer.<\/p>\n<p>Football lovers have been shocked at the sweeping arrests made<br>\nby the police and Malaysia's powerful anti-corruption agency<br>\nsince October, after soccer officials said they were determined<br>\nto root out bribery in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Many soccer fans had expressed their disappointment in local<br>\nnewspapers, which have devoted huge editorials to slam corrupt<br>\nplayers and bookies for bringing the sport into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun said the three footballers who confessed to match-<br>\nrigging were from the central state of Selangor.<\/p>\n<p>Five players from the state were arrested last week and<br>\nSelangor team officials said Saturday all had been dropped from<br>\nthe side.<\/p>\n<p>None of the footballers arrested so far has been charged in<br>\ncourt although authorities said they would initiate legal action<br>\nsoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun said a report of the trio's confession was being<br>\ndrafted for the attorney-general's office to charge them.<\/p>\n<p>\"The investigations are not over, although the players have<br>\nconfessed,\" the senior police officer told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the mass arrests have crippled the nation's<br>\nfootball team and Malaysia was considering pulling out from a<br>\ntournament in Bangladesh starting next month.<\/p>",
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