November 19 – Singapore’s high court has rejected an application by one of the world’s most notorious match-fixers to review a detention order that has allowed him to be held for more than a year without charge, according to his lawyer.
The businessman known as Dan Tan, regarded as the mastermind behind an international syndicate that has netted millions of dollars, was on almost every football crime-busting wanted list before being arrested last year.
Tan, whose full name is Tan Seet Eng, has been kept in prison in Singapore, long highlighted as one of the nerve centres for Asian match fixers who manipulate hundreds of games every year, since October last year but is yet to be charged with an offence.
Interpol hailed the capture of Tan and several associates as a huge breakthrough but under Singapore’s Criminal Law act, while detention orders allow suspects to be held indefinitely, they have to be reviewed every 12 months. Tan’s original order was extended last month.
“Our application for the review of detention was dismissed,” Tan’s lawyer Hamidul Haq told Reuters.
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