South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they have charged 12 people including 10 players with involvement in match-fixing that has rattled the K-League. The players are accused of receiving money from brokers trying to fix results of two games in April, said a spokesman for the prosecutors' office in the south-eastern city of Changwon.
Eight of them are from the Daejeon Citizen team. One team member is accused of receiving 120 million won ($110,600) and distributing it to seven others, the spokesman said. The Daejeon players were asked to throw a match against the Pohang Steelers on April 6, which Daejeon ended up losing 0-3. "Defenders did not take the ball from strikers from the opposing team even when they could, and just pretended to be trying," Yonhap news agency quoted Kwak Kyoo-Hong, a chief prosecutor in the case, as saying. "(Daejeon) strikers did not play aggressively and intentionally kicked the ball to miss the goal."
Another player, from Gwangju FC, was charged with receiving 100 million won from a broker who tried to rig a match with Busan I'Park in April. But prosecutors said it was not clear whether the money was handed over to other team members or whether the result was in fact rigged. A Pohang Steelers player was also charged. He did not play on April 6 but is accused of betting on the result following tips from other players.
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