Sports
Sepp Blatter (L) the FIFA Pr esident presen gate investig ts a commem ation, ZIFA pr orative plaque esident Cuth Across: From to the two m bert Dube (C) Left Henrietta en who bore and CEO Jon much of the br Rushwaya, R athan Mashi Raja Perumal obson Shar uk unt during th ngaidze (R). o, Sunday Ch e Asiaidzambwa, G odfrey Japaja decade pa, Rodwell Dhlakama, W since being re-admitted into ilson coaches the world football family – the Warriors and administrators had become Africa’s flying barons, and between 2007 and 2010, was reportedly national were turning expensive transcontinental masterminded by Singaporean sports- team as one of his cash cows. His alleged local connection and trips into a routine. Asiagate was born! fraudster Wilson Raj Perumal. captain of the Warriors’ merry band Simply put, Asiagate is the name given A serial trans-continental match fixer, of trans-continental adventurers, was to the match fixing scandal that involved Perumal is believed to have earned a players and officials of the Zimbabwe small fortune running into millions from then Zifa Chief Executive, and arguably national football team otherwise known a series of match-fixing operations mainly the most powerful football figure in the country at that time, Henrietta as the Warriors. in Asia and northern Europe. Rushwaya. Composed almost entirely of localBut his luck eventually ran out in She was ably assisted (allegedly, that based players at the time, the Zimbabwe Finland where he was arrested and is) by then Zifa programmes officer, national team, embarked on a number of eventually jailed in July 2011. Jonathan Musavengana, who supposedly trips to various Asian countries where In a scam that was strikingly similar led the Warriors delegation to Asia on a they played matches against national to what was happening in the Asiagate teams from those countries, losing most scandal, Perumal bribed players in the number of occasions and was essenti