If you lose the game on purpose, you'll give 37 million won. 1.8 billion times in a year, a courageous confession of a match manipulator, a person who changed him

Aug 09, 2025

If you lose the game on purpose, you'll give 37 million won. 1.8 billion times in a year, a courageous confession of a match manipulator, a person who changed him



The life of former Crystal Palace defender Moses Swibu (36) shows how the temptation of match fixing can ruin one player.

In a recent exclusive interview with the British daily 'Daily Mail', Swibu confessed honestly about how he participated in match fixing in the past and how he ended up in prison. He warns the soccer community of the dangers of match fixing through interviews and autobiographies ('Fixed').

According to the interview, Swybu first joined the match fixing in August 2012. Swybu, who was 23 years old at the time and played for Bromley, earned 850 pounds (about 1.6 million won) per week. My girlfriend was pregnant with a child, so there was a lot of financial pressure.




Then the criminal organization offered a seductive hand. At a five-star hotel in Mayfair, Dan Tan (Tan Seit Eng), considered a match-fixing magnate, received an offer that was hard to refuse. `"Dan, who smoked, seemed less than 1m65 tall, but his presence filled the room," he recalled. Dan promised to give 20,000 pounds (about 37 million won) if he intentionally loses the game the next day.

Swybu has stepped into the dark world, accepting the proposal. He used his position as the team's main center back and captain to influence him to change the result. I learned how to misplace myself when I defend, how to run to the wrong place, and how to get annoyed with my teammates after I actually made a mistake.

If you lose the game on purpose, you'll give 37 million won. 1.8 billion times in a year, a courageous confession of a match manipulator, a person who changed him
He played a total of nine games in the regional league (conference South League). The amount paid for participation in match-fixing jumped from 20,000 pounds to 150,000 pounds (about 280 million won). He earned more than 1 million pounds (about 1.8 billion won) in a little over a year and collected them in a secret room of a Chinese restaurant in Dalston.




Swybu, nicknamed John Gotti, sped through the London Tunnel in a Ferrari. Gradually, he began to make his mark as a match-fixing mogul.

But the long tail catches it. He was arrested at a Chinese restaurant and sentenced to 16 months in prison after being caught by the National Crime Agency (NCA), which was monitoring other criminal organizations. Former colleague and scout Delroy Pacey was sentenced to two and a half years.

Swybu said "The prison life was really hard. Violence, monotony, despair, but it was the interview of my daughter Taliya that broke me down. The moment Taliya came to see me, my life changed completely.'




After completing his prison sentence, Swibu is taking the lead in combating match fixing through cooperation with FIFA and others.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.