South Korean soccer star Son Jun-ho has been arrested in China for allegedly accepting bribes as Beijing clamps down on alleged corruption in the upper ranks of Chinese football.
Son was detained by public security authorities in China’s northeast Liaoning province on Friday “on suspicion of taking bribes as a person who is not a functionary of a state organ,” China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Tuesday. Son is a midfielder for Shandong Taishan, a soccer club in the Chinese Super League , which won the 2021 league title and 2021 Chinese Football Association Cup.
Son is the first foreign soccer player to be investigated and detained since the CSL started in 2004, according to China’s state-run Global Times. His arrest is part of a broader initiative by Beijing to rid Chinese soccer of alleged corruption in the highest levels of the sport. The Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog has been investigating a host of Chinese Football Association figures.
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