adminLONDON. — Two players with an English non-league club were charged yesterday with conspiracy to defraud as part of the National Crime Agency’s match fixing probe.
Michael Boateng and Hakeem Adelakun play for Brighton-based Whitehawk FC in the Conference South – effectively the sixth tier of English football.
They are the third and fourth people charged in connection with the investigation into an alleged international illegal betting syndicate.
Boateng and Adelakun have been bailed to appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court in central England on December 11. An NCA spokesman said: “The Crown Prosecution Service’s Organised Crime Division found sufficient evidence and was satisfied it was in the public interest to authorise charges.” —AFP.
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