Two Singaporeans charged for fixing matches in Turkey

Two Singaporeans have been charged with corruption for their involvement in match-fixing in Turkey in 2013, court documents showed yesterday. In a fresh case that highlights the global reach of football-rigging syndicates in the city-state, Rajendar Prasad Rai, 42, and Shree Manish Kalra, 22, each face three charges at a district court. Two were lodged on Monday and the other in late September. One accuses Rai of "instigating" Kalra to give 25,000 euros to a Macedonian national, Marjan Stojanchevski, and two countrymen to fix the outcome of a match between SC Charleroi of Belgium and VVV Venlo of Holland on Jan. 11, 2013 in Antalya, Turkey. Another charge says Rai asked Kalra to give 15,000 euros to the same Macedonians to fix a game between Steaua Bucuresti and Dynamo Moscow on Feb. 3, 2013 in Antalya.