A former Malaysian international was jailed for two years on Thursday for attempting to bribe a referee to rig a soccer match involving a Singapore team in 2012. Thana Segar S Sinnaiah pleaded guilty to working with Singaporean Selvarajan Letchuman to offer referee Shokri Nor a bribe of up to RM15,000 ($4,113) to ensure Singapore's Lions XII beat Sarawak in a Malaysian Super League match in the city-state. District Judge Siva Shanmugam said it was important to hand out a heavy sentence to ward off others from attempting such practices in Singapore, which is struggling to shake off its reputation as a global centre for match-fixing. "The trans-national nature of the present offences also undermines our enforcement agencies' efforts to tackle the unfortunate perception that Singapore is a haven for such offences," he was quoted as saying by The Straits Times.
Thursday, 9 April 2015
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