Investigation reveals World Cup games could have been fixed

Australian Gambling – WORLD Cup qualifiers and other soccer matches in Australia could have been fixed by an international gambling syndicate. Seven men have been arrested across England this week, two of which have been charged with conspiring to defraud Asian bookmakers by ‘influencing the course of soccer and matches and placing bets thereon” during November this year. The men accussed, Chann Sankaran, a 33-year-old Singapore national, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, a 43-year-old with dual British and Singaporean nationality, will appear at a magistrates’ court in Cannock, central England, on Friday The maximum prison sentence for the offence is 10…