Togo Scammers Expand Into Sport

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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:08 pm

This story happened last September, but I have not found it posted here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/8005163/Fake-Togo-team-linked-to-match-fixing-allegation.html

Some highlights from the article:

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A spokesman for the BFA said: “Everything seemed to be in order until after the game, when we began to hear that some people are wondering about these players and this Togo team. We ourselves were surprised when we heard this."

One football reporter said he was astonished by the laid back approach of the Togolese squad.

He explained: "There weren't any team lists provided by either team – I had to photocopy them all myself and hand them round. On the Togo side, there was one guy who just wrote down the names. Nobody had heard of any of them. Everyone assumed it was a reserve squad.

"Every five minutes they were diving and falling, saying they were injured."

Questions have also been raised over the match officials who were allegedly provided by the same agents and came from Niger.

It is understood the whole party travelled together from Accra, in Ghana, to Bahrain via Dubai.

The match between the Bahrain National Team and a fake Togo National Team allegedly was set up by convicted match fixer Wilson Raj Perumal of Singapore.