SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's high court has rejected an application by the alleged head of a global football match-fixing syndicate to review a detention order that has allowed him to be held for more than a year without charge, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
The local businessman, known as Tan Seet Eng or Dan Tan, was arrested in 2013 for his alleged role in trying to rig football matches. He had been labelled by Interpol as the "mastermind" of the world's most notorious match-fixing syndicate.
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