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| Businessmen guilty of football match-fixing | |
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| Two businessmen have been found guilty of plotting to fix the results of lower league football matches. | |
| Chann Sankaran and Krishna Ganeshan, both from Singapore, were convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery. | |
| Footballer Hakeem Adelakun was cleared of the same charge at Birmingham Crown Court. | |
| Jurors are still considering verdicts on former Whitehawk FC footballers Moses Swaibu and Michael Boateng. | |
| Sankaran, 33, of Hawthorn Road, Hastings, East Sussex, and Ganeshan, 44, of Hougang Avenue, Singapore, were described during their trial as the "central figures" in efforts to influence the outcome of matches in League Two and the Conference South. | |
| Former Whitehawk FC player Adelakun, 23, of Thornton Heath, south London, told the jury at that he knew nothing at all about any plot to fix matches. | |
| Mr Swaibu and Mr Boateng also played for the Brighton-based football club. | |
| Mr Boateng, 22, of Davidson Road, Croydon, south London, and Mr Swaibu, of Tooley Street, Bermondsey, south London, both deny a single count of conspiracy to offer, promise or give a financial advantage |