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Fraud Exposé Shakes African Soccer to its Core

Following the release of a video by Ghanaian journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, showing African soccer officials taking bribes to influence the outcome of games, a Kenyan World Cup-bound referee has been withdrawn by FIFA, while the Ghanaian Football Association has also been dissolved and an investigation launched.

 

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Kenyan referee Aden Marwa, left, who withdrew from the 2018 World Cup after he was filmed receiving a "gift" in an investigation by Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, bottom right.

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