SINGAPORE — Businessman Eric Ding is set to go on trial next month on three charges of corruption.
Ding, 31, is alleged to have supplied prostitutes to induce three Lebanese match officials to fix an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup match on April 3 between Singapore’s Tampines Rovers and India’s East Bengal.
Ding is said to have refused to disclose the password to his laptop while in remand and is also accused of stealing an M&A Law Corporation receipt from an investigator at the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, for which he was later charged with obstruction of justice and theft respectively.
However, these two charges have been stood down after an in-chambers meeting between his lawyers from Rajah & Tann and the deputy public prosecutors yesterday. According to the deputy public prosecutor, the charges could be revisited at a later date.
Ding, who was also a former football tipster for The New Paper, is now set for a trial that will begin on July 15 to contest three charges of corruption and faces a maximum sentence of five years in jail and S$100,000 on each count.
The three convicted Lebanese football referees, along with at least nine others, will stand as prosecution witnesses.
Ding is out on S$300,000 bail. AMIR YUSOF
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