If convicted of graft, the accused can be jailed for up to five years and fined up to SGD100,000.
Koa Wei Quan, who was handed 14 graft charges on Thursday in the State Courts in Singapore, is said to have tried to influence games played in the Philippines Basketball Association League and the Thailand Basketball League between April and July 2018.
Koa is said to have worked with the same pair around 16 days later, when he allegedly offered a bribe of 525,000 Philippine peso to unknown players from the Blackwater Elite basketball club. This time it was for a win over the Phoenix Fuel Masters basketball club in the Philippines Basketball Association League by an unspecified margin.Courts documents showed that the former business owner had also tried to influence the results of games in the Thailand Basketball League.
Koa also allegedly worked with one Poh Wei Hao to give a $1,000 bribe to Vosotros, to arrange for PEA basketball club to lose its match against the Mono Vampire basketball club in a game on July 1, 2018.
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