1.   Players in a youth soccer tournament in Qatar reportedly were offered bribes of money and prostitutes by two men linked to a gambling syndicate.

2.   U.S. and Colombian authorities believe the killer was a hit man for a gambling syndicate.

3.   All three were accused of rigging results of Premier League games for an Asian gambling syndicate.

4.   All five were arrested in dawn raids on their homes in March following a four-month investigation into alleged bribes involving an Asian gambling syndicate.

5.   Attention has focused on the alleged involvement of a Malaysian gambling syndicate in English soccer.

6.   British police have been investigating a betting scam, reportedly involving gambling syndicates in Malaysia, in which huge amounts of money are staked on soccer scores.

7.   Fashanu was alleged to have passed on the cash, and Lim was portrayed as the British end of a Far Eastern gambling syndicate.

8.   Gambling is illegal in Taiwan, but betting on professional baseball games is rife, ranging from casual wagers among spectators to underworld gambling syndicates.

9.   Grobbelaar and the others were arrested in dawn raids on their homes in March following a four-month investigation into alleged bribes involving an Asian gambling syndicate.

10.   Grobbelaar came under investigation in November after a tabloid newspaper published allegations that he received bribes from a Far East gambling syndicate to throw matches while playing for Liverpool.