Dutch tennis player Yannick Ebbinghaus has been suspended for six months and fined for betting illegally on matches, an anti-corruption body announced Monday. The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said the 23-year-old admitted breaching article D.1.a of anti-corruption rules 67 times between May 2012 and February 2013. The article outlaws any direct or indirect attempted or actual wager on the outcome of any aspect of tennis by players.

Three Lebanese football referees pleaded guilty Monday to accepting free sex from a gambling-linked global syndicate in return for rigging a match in Singapore, with two jailed and sentencing deferred for the third. A district court judge jailed assistant referees Ali Eid, 33, and Abdallah Taleb, 37, for three months, but deferred sentencing till Tuesday for referee Ali Sabbagh, whom state prosecutors said was the most culpable.

Hungarian prosecutors on Thursday charged 45 people as part of probe into alleged match-fixing during games in Hungary, Italy, Finland and two international fixtures, investigators said. "Among those charged are former players, players still in activity, referees, club owners, managers and coaches," a statement said. The prosecutor's spokeswoman said the accused -- 44 HUngarians and one Singaporean national -- faced sentences ranging from two to 16 years in jail.

The Singaporean businessman at the centre of a sex-for-match fixing case has been given a fresh charge of theft for allegedly stealing evidence, state prosecutors said Friday. Eric Ding Si Yang, 31, who is accused of trying to rig an AFC Cup football match by procuring sex workers for three Lebanese referees, was given seven days in custody because of the new charge. Ding was being interviewed at the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau on Wednesday when he tried to hide a personal receipt issued by a law firm, according to court documents seen by AFP.