SBC News Voice of the Sports Betting Industry
National Crime Agency (NCA) officers have today charged Delroy Facey, 34, of Huddersfield, with conspiracy to commit bribery. The Crown Prosecution Service’s Organised Crime Division authorised the charges on the basis that there is a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.
The charges relate to an ongoing football match fixing investigation which secured the conviction in June of Chann Sankaran, Krishna Ganeshan and Michael Boateng. They paid footballers to influence the outcome of matches so that others could profit through betting on the result.
Sankaran, Ganeshan and Boateng were convicted on 17 June 2014 of conspiracy to commit bribery and received prison sentences of five years, five years and 16 months respectively.
Delroy Facey was arrested in November 2013. He will appear at Cannock Magistrates Court on Tuesday 2 September.
Another man arrested as part of the same investigation, Moses Swaibu, will be retried after the jury was unable to reach a verdict in June. He will appear at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday 19 September.
Criminal proceedings have now commenced. It is extremely important that any reporting, commentary or sharing of online information does not in any way prejudice a fair trial.
The NCA’s investigation continues.
