3 convicted in Hong Kong’s largest football match-fixing scandal in years

A Hong Kong court has convicted two footballers and a betting agent of bribing fellow players to rig game outcomes in the city’s largest match-fixing case in recent years.Former Hong Kong Under-23 player Brian Fok was convicted on Friday of five charges, including three counts of offering an advantage to an agent in violation of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.The 32-year-old Nigerian-born defender, together with fellow player Luciano Silva da Silva, 38, and betting agent Waheed Mohammad, 29, were each found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to cheat at gambling.The trio was remanded in custody after the verdict at West Kowloon Court.The case was adjourned to May 29 for sentencing, pending the three defendants’ background reports.A fourth defendant, 31-year-old footballer To Chun-kiu, was acquitted of one count of conspiracy to cheat at gambling.