TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwanese authorities have detained six people on suspicion of accepting bets that prompted deliberately poor performances from baseball players, a prosecutor’s spokesman said on Tuesday.
The case, following a drive earlier this year to stop baseball gambling in Taiwan, could further tarnish the image of the island’s shrinking Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).
The domestic game has already lost viewership due to public suspicion of betting.
Taiwan’s cabinet said earlier this year it would take clamp down on gambling as celebrities and the president attended games to revive spectator interest in the island’s most popular sport.
