12 charged over match fixing in S Korea

SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors said on Thursday they have charged 12 people including 10 players with involvement in match-fixing that has rattled the K-League.

The players are accused of receiving money from brokers trying to fix results of two games in April, said a spokesman for the prosecutors' office in the southeastern city of Changwon.

Eight of them are from the Daejeon Citizen team. One team member is accused of receiving 120 million won ($110,600) and distributing it to seven others, the spokesman said.