A Hong Kong court on Friday convicted two footballers and a gambling agent of bribing other players to rig matches in the city’s top two football leagues in an operation worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The two players, Brian Fok and Luciano Silva Da Silva, and the gambling agent, Waheed Mohammad, ran a match-fixing gambling operation that spanned some 30 matches between 2021 and 2023, the city’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, which led the investigation, said in a statement.
Fok first attempted to fix a match in October 2021. He offered US$10,000 per match to a teammate from the Hong Kong Football Club team, which is a member of the HK Premier League, to participate in fixing the match. The teammate refused, but Fok later found willing participants in Silva Da Silva and Mohammad.
The three men then took action to correct the match results and placed illegal bets on more than 30 matches in the HK First Division, another league in the city.
Both Fok and Silva Da Silva then played in teams from that competition. Their operation involved deliberately losing matches.
The three men are in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.
Published on May 9, 2026
