Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming MArch 2016 30 This month’s Blast from the Past is very relevant to news breaking across the sports betting world right now. Our cover story from exactly three years ago, March 2013, provided IAG readers with in-depth analysis on the industry scourge of match fixing and the fact that much of it is controlled from Asia. Our story also introduced readers to convicted Singaporean match- fixer Wilson Raj Perumal who is back in the news in Holland, where the Integrity Unit of the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) last month alleged that Ibrahim Kargbo, who played for the country’s top-flight Eredivisie team Willem II Tilburg between 2006 and 2010, agreed to work with Perumal to fix at least one match, in 2009 (see separate story in this month’s International Briefs). Y oon Ki-won was two weeks from his 24th birthday when police say he killed himself rather than face charges that he’d taken gamblers’ money to throw matches in South Korea’s top football division, the K League. A promising goalkeeper, he’d been drafted by Incheon United out of college and started for the club at the beginning of the 2011 season before being benched early on following a series of lackluster performances—12 goals in six games, culminating in a 0-6 rout on 30th April at the hands of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. His body was found a week later behind the wheel of his car at a rest stop on the Gyeongbu Expressway near Seoul. Beside him was a half-burned briquette, the fumes from which killed him, and an envelope stuffed with 1 million won, the equivalent of about 700 US dollars. “You never can do it without a goalie,” Blast from the Past March 2013 Caught in the Net march 2013