A file picture of the Malaysia-Timor Leste match at the recent SEA Games in Singapore.
SINGAPORE: An Indonesian man was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday for attempting to fix the Malaysia-Timor Leste football match at the recent Southeast Asian Games in Singapore.
Nasiruddin, 52, conspired with two others to give Timor Leste soccer official Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes S$15,000 (RM41,000) to ensure they would lose to Malaysia on May 30, Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said in a statement.
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