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| Football match-fixing suspect arrested in Italy' | |
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| An international football match-fixing suspect has been arrested in Italy after arriving from Singapore and voluntarily giving himself up, reports from Milan say. | An international football match-fixing suspect has been arrested in Italy after arriving from Singapore and voluntarily giving himself up, reports from Milan say. |
| Italian media have named the suspect as a Slovenian man, Admir Sulic. | Italian media have named the suspect as a Slovenian man, Admir Sulic. |
| Interpol says that the suspect is believed to be linked to a match-fixing organisation based in Singapore. | Interpol says that the suspect is believed to be linked to a match-fixing organisation based in Singapore. |
| Investigators have been critical of Singapore for allowing alleged match fixers to live there freely. | Investigators have been critical of Singapore for allowing alleged match fixers to live there freely. |
| Interpol - the international organisation of criminal police - believes that Mr Sulic is linked to a match-fixing group controlled by Singaporean businessman Tan Seet Eng - also known as Dan Tan. | |
| The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Bangkok said that news of the pending arrest first emerged on Wednesday evening, when Interpol head Ronald Noble told a new conference on match-fixing in Malaysia that a suspect was on his way from Singapore to Milan. | |
| The man - who was not named by Mr Noble - was wanted by Italian police in connection with a scandal which saw several high profile Italian players given bans from football and clubs penalised, Interpol said. | |
| "We will follow the rule of law," the organisation's secretary general told reporters in Malaysia. "The hope is that [the suspect] will co-operate with law enforcement and tell us all he knows." | |
| He defended Singapore and south-east Asian countries from the charge that they had allowed the region to become a hub for international match-fixing. | |
| Mr Noble argued that the European police were not sharing information internationally - leaving the Asians with very little evidence to act on. |