Cameroon - Croatia match may have been tampered with

A betting fraudster, Wilson Raj Perumal announced on Facebook in a chat the exact occurrences in the match between Cameroon and Croatia which has raised suspicion of the match being tampered as reported by Der Spiegel, a German newspaper.

A few hours before the Cameroon Croatia match Perumal wrote in a message that Africans would lose the game 0-4 and that in the first half, one of their players would get a red card. Indeed, Cameroon lost the encounter with this result , in the 40th. minute Alex Song was red-carded after an assault on the field.

“In this team there are seven bad apples” , Perumal wrote. He believes the team has moved all three group games.

There is no evidence that the Cameroon Croatia game was rigged or any other game of the African countries.

FIFA?

The World Federation in Brazil had so many media inquiries about suspicion of match-fixing in the preliminaries prompting the organisation of a press conference on the subject.

Security Director, Ralf Mutschke said: “So far we have no evidence of a rigged game.” The developments of the odds are monitored daily with swift actions ready to be taken by if detected by the monitoring system put in place.

Born in Singapore, Tamil Perumal, who according to information obtained by Der Spiegel, from his imprisonment in Finland he was released and is currently in Hungary where there’s evidence in a trial against his former syndicate.

In the past 20 years Perumal was arrested six times. A warning system put in place by Fifa, the paper says, has never caught him.