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African soccer officials taking bribes to influence the outcome of games, a Kenyan World Cup-bound referee has been withdrawn by FIFA, while the Ghanaian Football Association has also been dissolved and an investigation launched.

 

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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