South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they have charged 12 people including 10 players with involvement in match-fixing that has rattled the K-League. The players are accused of receiving money from brokers trying to fix results of two games in April, said a spokesman for the prosecutors’ office in the southeastern city of Changwon. Eight of them are from the Daejeon Citizen team. One team member is accused of receiving 120 million won ($110,600) and distributing it to seven others, the spokesman said. The Daejeon players were asked to throw a match against the Pohang Steelers on April 6, which Daejeon ended up losing 0-3. “Defenders did not take the ball from strikers from the opposing team even when they could, and just pretended to be trying,” Yonhap news agency quoted Kwak Kyoo-Hong, a chief prosecutor in the case, as saying.
