Nepal football captain nabbed in World Cup match fixing probe

The captain of Nepal’s football team was seized on Wednesday in a coordinated series of arrests over allegations of match-fixing.

Sagar Thapa was one of the five current and former national players taken into custody for allegedly colluding to fix several matches, including the qualifiers for the last World Cup in Brazil, Agence France Presse reported.

Authorities said they’ve recorded “banking transactions,” in which large amounts of money were deposited in Thapa and other players’ bank accounts from alleged match-fixers from Southeast Asia.

Metropolitan Police Crime Division Chief Sarbendra Khanal told the news agency the transactions were between the players and “international match-fixers, including Malaysia and Singapore.”