{"id":418763,"date":"2011-05-06T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/zambians-guilty-of-match-fixing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:44:05","slug":"zambians-guilty-of-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/zambians-guilty-of-match-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians guilty of match-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A Finnish court has convicted two Zambian brothers of match-fixing in the country&#8217;s football league last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Oulu District Court says the Yobes were found guilty of taking 50,000 Euros ($72,500) in bribes to influence the outcome of a game last September.<\/p>\n<p>The court said the duo played &#8220;below their normal level&#8221; to allow Turku TPS to beat their club AC Oulu 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Donewell and Dominic were given seven-month suspended sentences and told to pay the sum of the bribe to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were questioned by Finnish police in March and later that month, HJK Helsinki &#8211; Finland&#8217;s reigning champions &#8211; dissolved midfielder Dominic&#8217;s contract and AC Oulu cancelled Donewell&#8217;s deal.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic is a former captain of Zambia&#8217;s Under-20 side.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the scandal, Oulu were effectively relegated to the second tier of the Finnish league.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several other Zambians are still awaiting a verdict after they were suspended by RoPs club for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s National Bureau of Investigation said that the investigation into RoPs was prompted by the detention in February of a Singaporean man travelling with forged identity documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Singaporean officials and public accounts, the man has been linked to several match-fixing cases,&#8221; the bureau said in March.<\/p>\n<p>RoPs are a Premier League team based in the northern city of Rovaniemi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9477602.stm\" title=\"Zambians guilty of match-fixing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zambians guilty of match-fixing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A Finnish court has convicted two Zambian brothers of match-fixing in the country&#8217;s football league last year. The Oulu District Court says the Yobes were found guilty of taking 50,000 Euros ($72,500) in bribes to influence the outcome of a game last September. The court said the duo played &#8220;below their normal level&#8221; to allow Turku TPS to beat their club AC Oulu 5-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zambians guilty of match-fixing - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/zambians-guilty-of-match-fixing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zambians guilty of match-fixing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A Finnish court has convicted two Zambian brothers of match-fixing in the country&#039;s football league last year. 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