Thursday, May 20, 2010
HONG KONG — A Chinese soccer player has been jailed in Hong Kong for 10 months for trying to bribe an opponent into throwing a top division match.
Hong Kong's anti-graft commission said in a statement that former Happy Valley defender Yu Yang was sentenced Thursday.
The 27-year-old Yu approached Fourway Rangers player Jean Jacques Kilama on Oct. 3, offering him a bribe in exchange for help in engineering a loss to Happy Valley that day. Kilama, a Cameroon native, refused. Fourway Rangers won 2-0.
An earlier newspaper report said Yu was acting on behalf of betting syndicates in mainland China.
