SPEEDING through London with £100,000 in cash in the footwell of his car, footballer Moses Swaibu knew he had just crossed over into the dark side of the beautiful game. Moses had been paid by a foreign organised crime group to fix the match between his Conference side Bromley and Eastbourne. And instead of feeling guilty, Moses was hungry for more.
He was no longer a professional footballer, he was a professional match fixer . He had the power to control score lines and make millions for overseas betting cartels. Somehow he had gone from being named Crystal Palace ’s Young Player of the year, to trusted lieutenant in an organised crime group rigging football matches and making vast sums of money by betting on the results.
But his actions were going to send shockwaves through the English football league - and land Moses and other players in prison. Swaibu was jailed for 16 months in 2015 following an undercover newspaper investigation into match fixing. He and another player, Delroy Facey were convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery following a trial in Birmingham.
Two businessmen – Chann Sankaran and Krisna Ganeshan - along with footballer Michael Boateng , were also convicted of attempting to fix football games at an earlier trial. Moses, 35, now works to help prevent young players getting involved in illegal betting and has shared his story for a new BBC Sounds podcast, Confessions of a Match Fixer. “I drove across London with piles of cash in my car and learned h.