Tonite the Dutch tv featured a report on how Chinese maffia managed to infiltrate and to control some Belgian premier league football clubs. By this they can make huge profits by gambling on football matches on internet.
The key role is the Chinese called Zheyun Ye from Shanghai. He seems to be a front of the powerful Chinese internet gambling triads in Shanghai. Ye made his way in at least two Belgian clubs La Louviere and Lierse. Since the fall of 2005 and early 2006 there have been some notable soccer matches. La Louviere lost a number of matches in a row. So were the spare goalkeeper and the worse players sent to the matches.
A British internet bookmaker found that there were irregularities in those matches. The stakes appeared to be unusual high for those normally seen as regular matches in the Belgian league. The bookmaker alerted the Belgian football federation but to no avail. There was no any response from the last one.
It is said that Ye bribed the management and some players of those clubs. Ye demanded that when and with how many goals La Louviere and Lierse should lose a match. By controlling the outcomes of those matches gamblers in China made huge profits in hundred thousands of euros.
The Belgian public prosecution service and the football federation have just decided to launch a thorough inspection in those rumours on bribing by Chinese triads.
Yee Chuen Leung
Chief Editor
