Is Australia Too Lenient on Its Corrupt Athletes? Two A-League Stars Just Walked Free
A Colombian syndicate paid Australian football players $10,000 to get yellow cards. They escaped prison and even a criminal conviction, but their mastermind's trial is ongoing.
Two Macarthur FC players took A$10,000 each to get themselves booked. But what looked like just another routine yellow-card scam spiralled into Australia’s biggest football integrity case in a decade.
The Sports and Crime Briefing breaks down why Clayton Lewis and Kearyn Baccus walked out of court without convictions, why they may never set foot on a professional pitch again, how they were lured by Colombian criminals, and what this says about match-fixing in Australia
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