KL soccer body seek corruptors

KL soccer body seek corruptors

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): The Malaysian Football Association, in a crackdown on widespread corruption, said all players and officials in its professional or premier leagues had to declare their assets, local press reports said yesterday.

"When they declare their assets, we will be able to identify those who are living beyond their means," the New Sunday Times quoted the association's deputy president as saying.

Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahamad Shah said the soccer body would impose life suspension on players and officials found corrupt and to have resorted to match-fixing.

On Saturday, local newspapers reported that three players from the northern state of Penang had admitted accepting 15,000 ringgit (US$5,800) each from illegal bookies to fix a match. A fourth player, a team reserve, was paid 1,000 ringgit ($393) to run errands.