Zimbabwe football association gives police report on match fixing

Harare (dpa) - The Zimbabwe Football Association has handed over to police its report on the match-fixing scandal related to games in Asia, which FIFA chief Joseph Blatter said would lead to life-time bans for the guilty.

"We received the report and we have submitted it to the fraud section to investigate. There is nothing more we can say at this stage," said an official at police headquarters Wednesday.

National team members and officials are accused of throwing games between 2007 and 2010 in Asia. Former Zimbabwe national team captain and coach Sunday Chidzambwa, several top players and a sports editor have been reportedly named in the 162-page document for allegedly taking bribes.

"I think we did a thorough job and we now expect the police to look at it," the chief of Zimbabwe's football association, Jonathan Mashingaidze, told the German Press Agency dpa. The report has also been sent to FIFA and the Confederation of African Football.

The report named London-based Singaporean Wilson Raj Perumal, who was arrested in February, as the main contact person in the group fixing matches in Malaysia, Thailand and Syria.

Henrietta Rushwaya, a former chief of the Zimbabwe association, was also named in the report. She was sacked last year for sending teams to Asia without authorization.

The report, however, did not establish the amounts of money exchanged in the reported scandal.

FIFA security chief Chris Eaton arrived in Zimbabwe last week and said the football body would be working with governments and Interpol to "clean up the situation."