How to organize a fixed match? Answers the main manipulator in the history of football. Offers hard to refuse

Wilson Raj Perumal was very fond of football and betting on it, but he did not like to lose. This character trait allowed him to become one of the largest and most influential organizers of match-fixing in the world, but it also put an end to the empire he built from scratch.

If you want to do something, do it yourself

Wilson Raj Perumal was born in 1965 in the Indian region of Singapore. The boy always had a love for sports and was even very successful at junior level athlete. However, Wilson's main passion has always been football: since childhood he was a fan of Manchester United and did not miss a single game of Diego Maradona.

However, the young man associated his future not with the number one game, but with military service: Wilson dreamed of a career in the Singapore Armed Forces. What prevented Perumal from carrying out his plan was that, while still a teenager, he was prosecuted for burglary.

Wilson did not grieve for long. Shortly after giving up the army, friends introduced him to the stakes. At that time, the future King of match-fixing was 19 years old. Perumal, who loved football, liked the new hobby.

Wilson began to spend almost all of his time and money on betting. He enjoyed the game a lot. The only problem was that he didn't win very often. After another major loss, the enterprising young man decided to "seize the initiative."

Perumal organized his first fixed match from scratch: he rented a municipal stadium, rented two sets of football uniforms and called his friends as players and referees. To attract the interest of bookmakers to the game, the young man gave advertisements to local newspapers. They said that the upcoming meeting would be the final of the tournament between Singaporean food service chains.

Perumal organized his first fixed match from scratch: he rented a municipal stadium, rented two sets of football uniforms and called his friends as players and referees.

The scheme worked, and on the day of the “big final” Perumal won 15 thousand Singapore dollars, betting on the victory of the “team in white”, which during the meeting was losing 3-0.

“The bookmakers suspected that I had deceived them, but they could not prove anything,” Wilson later recalled. “They couldn’t prove that my friends were playing in the match and had to pay me because their reputation depended on it. If they refused, then people would decide that they simply do not have money.”

According to Perumal, he always pulled off this scam when he ran out of money - 10-15 times.

Incorruptible Kharin, the Atlanta Olympics and hockey sticks

Over time, the ambitions and scope of Perumal's activities only grew. Refusing to work for an oil company, the young man began organizing match-fixing in the semi-professional and amateur leagues in Singapore. Later, Wilson got to professional football. Moreover, Perumal began to try to conduct his activities outside his homeland.

In the mid-nineties, Wilson visits England. In the homeland of football, he makes a couple of attempts to bribe players, which, however, end in nothing. Birmingham goalkeeper Ian Bennett refused to "surrender" the FA Cup match with Liverpool, and Chelsea goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin failed to agree.

True, Perumal later admits that he was involved in a power outage at Premier League matches in the 1997/98 season. Then two games of the championship of England were interrupted due to problems with lighting in the stadiums. Later it turned out that representatives of Asian crime syndicates bribed employees football arenas to disrupt meetings. The reason is simple: in such cases, Asian bookmakers, unlike British ones, do not cancel bets, but pay out winnings based on existing results.

At the same time, Perumal makes his first attempts to organize a match-fixing at the national team level, but fails here too. Thus, the national team of Zimbabwe, six players of which he offered $ 100,000 for a 4-0 defeat, played with the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a draw. An attempt to bribe the goalkeeper of the Mexican national team at the Olympic Games in Atlanta (Perumal offered the player $ 300,000) also ended in nothing.

At this time, the great football strategist has new problems with the law in his homeland. In 1995, he was sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to bribe the captain of one of the Singaporean teams.

Five years later, he would be sentenced to two years for assaulting Woodlands Wellington footballer Ivica Ragusa. Perumal injured a footballer hockey stick so that he can't play next match of your team. In 2003, Wilson was sentenced to 16 months in prison for attempting to bribe an arbitrator.

Offers hard to refuse

Despite the increasing problems with the law, the peak of Perumal's career fell precisely on zero. By the second half of the decade, he had become the largest and most influential organizer of fixed games in football. Having built an extensive network of connections, the one who would be called the King of match-fixing began to implement his ambitious schemes at the international level.

The experience gained allowed Perumal to hone his methods of work. Now he did not try to bribe individual players, but directly cooperated with the football federations. His main partners were teams from Central America, Africa and the Middle East. At the same time, Perumal acted very selectively, working only with the most vulnerable organizations that were experiencing great financial difficulties.

The organizer of fixed games himself described the principles of his work as follows:

"I'm making my offer. I say that I will cover all expenses for food, flights, accommodation and pay each player $ 50,000 per game if they agree to dance to my tune.

According to Perumal, many federations welcomed him "with open arms."

"I'm making my offer. I say that I will cover all expenses for food, flights, accommodation and pay each player $ 50,000 per game if they agree to dance to my tune.

One such partner was the Football Association of Zimbabwe, which later became involved in a major corruption scandal. In 2012, more than 80 players from this country were suspended from playing for the national team for "surrendering" several friendly matches in the period from 2007 to 2009.

In 2009, Wilson Raj Perumal opened the company Football4U, which collaborated with a number of football federations in organizing friendly (aka contractual) matches. However, he never abandoned his old schemes. For example, in 2010, Perumal organized a meeting between the national team of Bahrain and the fake team of Togo, which consisted entirely of impostors.

Perumal has repeatedly claimed that he organized fixed games at major international competitions, such as Olympic Games in Beijing, Cup African nations 2008, Women's World Cup 2007, CONCACAF Gold Cup 2009 and qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The King of match-fixing is especially proud of his involvement in the last tournament. According to him, it was he who contributed to the exit of the national teams of Nigeria and Honduras in the final part of the World Cup.

Perumal claims that he bribed one of the Nigerian rivals and influenced the outcome of the match between Mozambique and Tunisia, on which the fight for a place in the World Cup depended. For his work, Wilson received the right to host three friendly games for the Nigerian national team and part of the money allocated by FIFA for the team's accommodation during the World Cup.

Well, the result needed for Honduras, according to Perumal, was provided by one of his close assistants.

“Getting Nigeria and Honduras to the World Cup was my personal achievement. I thought, “Damn! I brought two teams to the World Cup, but I can’t tell anyone about it, ”Perumal later recalled.

"I took two teams to the World Cup, but I can't tell anyone about it."

There are always bigger fish

Despite the successes, problems with the law continued to haunt Perumal. It was because of them that he had to leave his native Singapore forever and flee to England. In 2009, the King of match-fixing was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for hitting a police officer.

In England, he continued to organize fixed games. It was he who was behind several friendly matches of national teams on the eve of the 2010 World Cup. His company Football4U provided referees for these matches, providing their employers desired results.

Oddly enough, Perumal fell into the hands of justice not when he made an unsuccessful attempt to bribe the referee at the world championship, but a year later, when organizing a contractual game in the Finnish championship. The investigation found that Wilson offered nine Rovaniemen Palloseura players tens of thousands of euros in exchange for several matches.

Law enforcement officers were shocked to find contacts of representatives of 38 football federations on Perumal's phone. When examining the suspect's personal computer, they found a couple dozen more numbers. So the investigation found that Perumal kept in touch with more than 50 football federations of the world. This is a quarter of all official FIFA members.

In the summer of 2011, Wilson Raj Perumal was sentenced to two years for match-fixing, document forgery and resisting arrest. Having landed behind bars once again, the King of match-fixing decided to go against his principles and start cooperating with the investigation. The reason is simple: he was sure that his former partners had betrayed him.

In Finland, Perumal said that he was part of a large Asian syndicate led by Singaporean businessman Den Ten. According to Wilson, Ten was behind match-fixing in Italian Series B, the Hungarian Championship and the Finnish Premier League. Perumal's testimony did not go unnoticed in his homeland, and in 2013 Ten and his accomplices were arrested by law enforcement officers in Singapore.

According to the former head of the FIFA Security Committee, Chris Eaton, the reason for the deterioration of relations with Ten was Perumal's addiction to betting, which he was never able to overcome. He gambled regularly and once lost three million dollars in just one day. The craving for bets brought him to the point that he spent on them the money given to him for organizing match-fixing.

Also, Ten did not like the “excessive publicity” of Perumal, who had accounts on social networks and tried too risky schemes like a match with impostors from Togo.

Lay low in Budapest

Now Wilson Raj Perumal lives in Hungary, where he is under the witness protection program. For several years now, Singapore has been unsuccessfully seeking the extradition of the match-fixing King sentenced in absentia. Perumal claims that he does not have a permanent job and is forced to live very modestly. Acquired for long years he lost a millionth fortune on bets.

He has no regrets about what he did. According to him, most of the players with whom he worked thanked him for the opportunity to earn big money and change their lives for the better.

“Only illegal bookmakers suffered from my actions, but their losses still pale in comparison with the money that they earn,” he said. former King fixed matches.

How to organize a fixed match? Answers the main manipulator in the history of football

Wilson Raj Perumal organized a hundred fixed matches, served three times for this and wrote a book. Now he is answering questions from Match TV about how to influence the results of games, how much you can earn from it and how to deal with it in general.

The man in the photo is Wilson Raj Perumal. You may have heard of him. Perhaps even watched the matches, the scenarios of which he came up with. In 2011, Perumal was detained by the Finnish police after trying to arrange a match-fixing in the Finnish top league. Contacts of football leaders and football players from 38 countries of the world were found in his phone. In his laptop were the phones and emails of football people from more than 50 countries (in total, FIFA includes 209 associations). The investigators became even more interested a few days after the arrest. Perumal made a deal and began to remember what connects him with each of those recorded in the phone book.

Before Perumal's stories, the FIFA security department lived an ordinary life. People came to work at 9:00, had lunch from 13:00 to 14:00, turned off their computers at 17:59 and went home. After Perumal spoke, the lights in the FIFA offices stopped going out.

People leafed through Perumal's reports and understood that football outside the first hundred of the FIFA rating should be closed. And possibly even higher. In his book “Kings of Contracts”, Perumal recalls how he went to England to explore a new market. One of his targets was Chelsea goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin. Perumal and his friend acted simply. They waited for Kharin at the door of the base, pretended to be fans, took pictures and asked if the goalkeeper could give them a lift to the city. On the way, Perumal took out $60,000 in cash and suggested to Kharin that Chelsea lose the next match. Kharin refused.

He said that he had a long-term contract with Chelsea, says Perumal in an interview with Match TV. - He said that he would not want to ruin his career because of this money.

- You got into a car with a stranger and offered a bribe. How is this possible?

Of course, we understood that there was a risk that he would immediately report us to the police. As soon as he dropped us off his Mini, we rushed to the first taxi that came across to leave as soon as possible.

In that conversation with Perumal, Kharin admitted that he was offered to play fixed matches at the 1994 World Cup. And then he refused too. Perumala the words of the Chelsea goalkeeper did not surprise then and do not surprise now.

I think that Kharin could well have been offered to take matches at the World Championships. He really told us this. I have no reason to doubt. I think that at that time, contract players played at tournaments of this level.

- Why, then? What has changed in twenty years?

At that time, there were no systems like BetRadar and FederBet, with the help of which you can see in real time how much money is being put on which events, and track suspicious bets. Then there were fewer people who follow bets on not the most top matches. Now there are experts evaluating rate fluctuations. More controlling companies.

- That is, there are fewer fixed matches in the world?

I will answer this way: many have become afraid to organize them.

- Three things to do to permanently solve the problem of match-fixing in football.

Close legal betting shops operating online. Close illegal offices operating online. These two steps will reduce the number of match-fixing to a minimum.

Wilson Raj Perumal dreamed of becoming a military man, but as a child he ruined his biography when he got into the police. He started gambling and got very upset when he lost. In order not to lose again, he decided to organize the desired outcomes of matches. Then he entered the largest syndicate, which was led by Dan Tan. With the development of the Internet, he has even more opportunities. It was possible to bet not only on the matches of the Singapore Championship, but also to manipulate world football.

For the Beijing Olympics, money could be loaded online not only for match results, but also for secondary indicators. It has become easier. For example, Perumal described the case of how he paid money to the Nigerians so that they would be the first to start the match of the semi-final tournament of the Olympics with Argentina from the center of the field. And he loaded a crazy amount into the bookmaker's office. One of the scariest moments of his career came when the referee tossed a coin before the match and pointed at Riquelme. One of the happiest moments of his career happened when Riquelme turned to the words of the Nigerian captain, listened to him, and then raised his hands up and said: "No problem, you start."

- That is, most of the contract games are played to earn money on bets?

Not necessary. The presidents of the top leagues of the clubs have a good relationship with each other, they can be good friends. Therefore, when one club needs points more than another, they can negotiate among themselves. And there are no financial reasons.

Let's pretend I'm the President football club. Another president suggested that my team should lose this time. I agreed. What are my next steps, how do I negotiate with the team?

I know from my own experience that in order to be 100% sure of a positive result, you need to agree with four players. Among them should be two central defenders. It has always been more convenient and easier for me to work with central defenders, and not with goalkeepers. Well, it is also very important that the coach knows about your intentions.

- With whom is it easier to negotiate: with the players or the referees?

This question cannot be answered unequivocally, it all depends on the specific situation, and not on whether you are trying to negotiate with the referee or with the player. Much rests on the financial situation of a person.

In his book, Perumal wrote that he tried not to get into the Eastern European market and worked more in Africa. But he had many partners, and according to his information, one of the main hotbeds of match-fixing in the world was the lower leagues of Belarus. But now everything is different there.

I think the Belarusian league has become much cleaner now. I follow the bets on these matches. They are very stable. Therefore, I can conclude that everything is better there than before.

- How much money can you earn on holding a fixed match in conditional Belarus?

It is impossible to earn big money in such tournaments. Especially now, when bookmakers control everything. I think you can earn something like 100 thousand dollars for a match there.

- Have you ever thought of holding a fixed match in Russia?

No never. The reason is simple: I just don't speak your language. I was not connected with this market, so I don't know how many match-fixing matches you played.

You wrote that you tried not to go into the Eastern European market, because it is very dangerous there. What did you mean?

I meant violence. Eastern Europeans are more dangerous in this regard. Asians are much quieter.

Perumal has never counted how many fixed matches he has had in his career, but he thinks that it is about a hundred games. There is even a book on his website. special section with match highlights organized by Perumal. Sometimes he gave instructions to coaches right from the bench. In the 90s, there were few places where they controlled who was next to the team in the technical area.

Some may have heard of this man who was arrested in 2011 by the Finnish police for match-fixing in the Finnish Football League.

During his arrest, lists of phone numbers of many top coaches, as well as many famous football players, as well as contacts of thirty-eight European football functionaries.

Before Perumal was silent, FIFA employees went to work as usual and left as usual. After Perumal decided to cooperate, the lights in the FIFA windows stopped turning off at all.

In his book "Kings of Contracts", Perumal recalls how he went to England to master his business in English clubs.

Chelsea goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin became his first target. Perumal acted simply with his accomplice. He waited near the gates of the club, when the players begin to leave them. Seeing Kharin, they introduced themselves as fans of the club, asked to be photographed, and then asked Dmitry to give them a ride to the center of London. Already in the car, Perumal took out sixty thousand dollars from his bag and offered them to Kharin, so that Chelsea would lose in the next match. Kharin refused.

"He said he had a long-term contract with Chelsea. He said he didn't want to risk his career for the money. Then we just got out of the car, as soon as he drove off, we rushed to the nearest taxi and left the place, afraid that Kharin will hand us over to the police"- says Perumal.

What has changed in the last twenty years in football, in terms of match-fixing?

"Now it has become much more difficult. Bet Radar and Feder Bet appeared. With the help of them, in real time, it is possible to track suspicious bets. Now there are many specialists and offices that track fluctuations in rates."

Has there been less match-fixing in the world?

"I will answer you this way: fewer people began to use them. Many are already afraid to organize them."

What needs to be done to avoid match-fixing?

"Close legal and illegal bookmakers operating online mode. These two actions alone will greatly reduce the number of fixed matches."

Raj Perumal always dreamed of becoming a military man. But the biography was spoiled by drives to the police in childhood. He gambled and lost very often. And then one day he decided to change the situation. He decided to adjust the desired results for himself. He soon entered the gaming syndicate run by Dan Tan. With the development of the Internet, Perumal also developed, he had more opportunities to control the outcome of matches. It was already possible to bet not only on matches in Singapore, but on the entire world football.

During the Beijing Olympics, money was loaded not only on the main indicators, but also on the secondary ones, which well masked the fraudster's manipulations.

For example, Perumal himself described how he paid the Nigerian national team to start the match from the center of the field first in the match against Argentina. The referee tossed a coin into the air and by lot, Argentina gets to put the match into play. And then, the "charged" captain of Nigeria, asks Riquelme to give him the right to start the match first, and he agrees. The bet is over!

Is the purpose of contracting to make money?

"No, not always. Many owners of top clubs have good relations with each other and very often they agree that the opponent will give them a match. Then the representatives of the clubs agree among themselves about this and there is no financial reason."

Let's say I'm the owner of the club and I'm offered to pass the match by representatives of the opponent. What are my next steps? With whom to negotiate?

"I can answer from my own experience. To be one hundred percent sure of the outcome of the match, I need to agree with four players. Among them, there must be two central defenders, and not a goalkeeper. And more importantly, the coach must be aware of these agreements, respectively, and in proportion.

Who better to contact you? Referees or players?

“A lot depends on who is poorer in terms of financial situation. In general, it all depends on the individual. Some refuse to cooperate at all. Once, I was not able to persuade a player to enter the field and get sent off. Then I beat him with a golf club before the match and he didn't play at all. By the way, I raised a lot of money at this event too."

In his book, Perumal wrote that he tried not to get involved in Eastern European football. He mainly concentrated on matches in Africa.

But he had partners who worked in Eastern Europe and, according to their information, the most corrupt in terms of agreements was Belarus, or rather, its lower leagues. But even there, over time, the situation began to improve in recent times.

"Now belarusian football became cleaner in this regard. I follow the coefficients and I can say that they are stable and regular."

How much money can you earn on a fixed match, let's say in Belarus?

"In such weak leagues, it is impossible to make millions on one match. One hundred thousand dollars maximum. Otherwise, you automatically attract the attention of the relevant services."

Have you thought about holding match-fixing in Russia?

"No, never. I don't know your language, but I don't know your mentality. Also, I don't get into the little-studied betting market. You can warm up on a big one."

You say that you try not to get into the Eastern European betting market. What does this mean?

"I mean violence. Eastern Europeans are very dangerous in this regard. Asians are very easy to negotiate in this regard."

"Black bookmakers" and purchased matches. End of material about Wilson Raj Perumal.

Perumal had great connections in Asia, and the African team of Zimbabwe generally received a salary from him - at the same time, not the title call of the national was often brought to the tournaments, but the Olympic, youth team, or some club: who will understand the country, whose economy cheerfully and successfully rolls into hell?

It's time to go to Europe.

Perumal already had a bad experience on the Old Continent - in particular, he tried to bribe Chelsea goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin, but the attempt was unsuccessful. Perumal was advised to immediately leave the UK (which the BLU SB took care of), and besides, they hinted that this was not his territory at all (they were already serious guys from the Tirana drug cartel).

Thus, Perumal decided to work with the second Finnish league. The scheme was simple: 4-5 African legionnaires were brought to the club, the coach put them on every game, and they ensured the result. Naturally, club presidents also had a share: they were promised that their teams would not fly out of the league, and their card account would be replenished by a significant amount every week.

But at the end of 2010, Dan Tan's cartel began to enter the Balkans, where he began a market relationship with the Tirana drug cartel. The Albanian heroin kings, through Tan, were given access to a Singapore gambling house (300,000 euros per click), in exchange for allowing Tan and his team to work in their own habitat.

In January 2011, Tan called Perumal and said that there was some business in which Raj's share would be 60,000 euros. "What kind of matches?" Perumal asked immediately. After a long theatrical pause, Tan replied with inexpressible pride: "Napoli - Sampdoria 4-0 and Brescia - Bari 2-0."

Perumal could not believe it. It's Serie A!

It turned out that the agents of the players, who owed money to the Sapin brothers, and, therefore, stuck out to the Tirana drug cartel, turned to Tan themselves, deciding to bet 600,000 euros - thus, they repaid the debt and made a profit. The snag was that Sampdoria agreed to "lie down", but only with a score of 0:2, not 0:4. As a result, the old fox Perumal, of course, resolved everything as the cartel required. His negotiating talent was estimated at 10% of the total rate of 0.6 million euros.

Sampdoria "lays down" near Napoli to pay off the debts of the players

In Finland, Perumal worked with the Ravaniemi club, where he was pissed off by the crazy Zambians. To make money, a Singaporean businessman organized the U "23 tournament in Egypt - he did quite well there. The choice of the country was also not accidental: they love football in Egypt and show all the games of the Olympic or youth teams on television, therefore, bookmakers open a line .

Money was also made on individual "commodities". Perumal organized a friendly meeting Bahrain - Togo, and Togo was represented by the second team, completely financially dependent on the Tamil functionary. The underground football businessman hoped to raise the "total over", so the match was supposed to be served by a man-result, the famous "Ibracadabra". It seemed that the deed was done, but someone “leaked” information to Asian bookmakers that the match had been bought, and in Asia, everyone without exception began to bet on “total over”.

As a result, the bets on the line changed and it turned out that you can make a profit only by betting on the “total under”. By that time, Bahrain had already opened the scoring, but Perumal nevertheless decided to take a chance and informed the assistant head coach of the Togo national team about the change in plans. He, cursing, re-instructed the players, after which the Togo team immediately dug in near their own penalty area. “Blow off all offsides, the bet has changed, we are playing for total under. Total two and a half,” said the assistant coach to the linesmen, the “right and left hand” of Ibrahim Chabu. The star team from Niger did their dirty deed by not assigning two clear penalties to the Togo national team and finding offsides even in those game situations when the ball was localized in the central circle. Thanks to the virtuoso work of Ibracadabra, Wilson Raj Perumal raised about half a million.

Working with the national team and clubs are two different things. Both there and there have their difficulties. It is easier to organize the national team, however, the organization of the “goods” itself costs about 200 thousand euros - at the same time, you need to pray that the bookmakers open the line, otherwise all aspirations and finances are down the drain. Net exhaust can be approximately 400 thousand euros. Clubs, on the other hand, play every week and you need to negotiate very carefully, because fans or bookmakers may suspect something is wrong if a team of a certain level suddenly starts to show results that do not correspond to this level.

If you don't negotiate with the players, you negotiate with the referees. You do not negotiate with the judges - you negotiate with the coaches. You do not agree with anyone - you are looking for another solution.

In Asian offices, a return line is played if the match is interrupted in the first half. That is, if something goes wrong, then the meeting must be interrupted in order to return the money. Back in the nineties, Perumal had an idea with a power outage (the match is interrupted and played out the next day, the cartel can revise the bet and does not lose anything), which was implemented in the fights Derby - Wimbledon, West Ham - Crystal Palace and Wimbledon - Arsenal. Naturally, there was no bribery of football players here, those people who have access to an electric switch were bribed. Then they offered 100 thousand euros to an electrician for cutting off the current at a meeting between Barcelona and Fenerbahce. Why so much? Because it was a Champions League match and the electrician would have been fired immediately without severance pay.

Perumal lost a hundred thousand: the stadium was equipped with a spare generator.

As already mentioned, in Ravaniemi, things were not going very well for Perumal. He tried to dock with Tampere or Popa, but they already belonged to the Croats and Albanians. Rather, the Croats and Albanians from the Tirana drug cartel have already ordered their music there. Ravaniemi, despite all the perturbations, went to the top Finnish league, which in Asian bookmakers meant an increase in the rate to 18 thousand euros per click, and now the cartel was much more interested. But Perumal swore to deal with this team after another failed deal. Before the start of the match, he asked the players to ensure "total under", but they said that the field is very small, they feel strong in themselves and asked to bet either on them or on "total over".

“The score will be 5:2 in our favor or something like that,” they assured.

Perumal charged 100 thousand euros for the game.

Ravaniemi drew 1:1.

“People think our business is simple and easy. Went, agreed, all tip-top. In fact, these are huge nerves. Everyone and everything is thrown here - from bosses to subordinates. You can, for example, charge money to your person and tell him to bribe such and such a team for such and such a match. A person calls and says that it didn’t work out, the players didn’t fall for it. Comes, brings money. Years later, you will find out that he poured your money into his result, made a bet and hit the jackpot, and just brought you a “charge”. Do they kill us? Yes. But not like in the movies, where they shoot off the head for leaking information. Usually small "black bookmakers" kill - when they are just starting to gain credibility. The cartel can kill a small fry - just to demonstrate their power, to show who is who in this fucking life. No one will kill a large debtor. He earns interest, which he pays on time. If he does not hide, does not run away, does not leave, does not hide, then there are no questions for him at all. Yes, the person lost, but he pays his interest. They often tell me - you, they say, are a disgrace to football and all that. Do you know what I'll tell you? When I offer someone money for a contract and get a refusal, then I don’t go to this person anymore. He is a professional in his field, ok, no questions. But if you want to raise money, you work with me. And I've always been honest with everyone I've worked with. Not a single person will tell you: "Wilson Raj Perumal dumped me."

Wilson Raj Perumal was sentenced by the Finnish authorities to two years in prison. In prison, he began to cooperate with the investigation, and a year later he was transferred to Hungary, where he still lives. Perumal has uncovered a whole network of contractors dealing with agreements, but FIFA is sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Wilson Raj Perumal is the organizer of many fixed matches and entire tournaments.

His book "Kelong Kings", co-authored with two Italian journalists and published on April 28, 2014, became a bestseller even at the stage of biblio-post-production.

With us, many are not so honest, and we are used to it. But it's hard to realize that even football can deceive you. It's already really scary.