Since July this year, the former chairman of Tianjin Teda Football Club, Dong Wensheng has been taken away by the Tianjin authorities for investigation. During this period, Chi Rongliang, Wang Xiao and others have been investigated one after another, while Dong Wensheng's investigation has never stopped.
According to an announcement issued by the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Tianjin Binhai New Area at the end of September, "According to the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Representation of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses at All Levels, the qualification of Dong Wensheng (53rd Constituency) as a delegate to the Third People's Congress of the Binhai New Area of Tianjin City shall be terminated."
The incident has taken months to investigate, the core focus on state-owned enterprise clubs in soccer investment corruption. Currently only involves the Tianjin soccer circle, but still can not help but reminiscent of 2009 swept the country's soccer world of the black storm.
The cause of the last National Football League crackdown stemmed from the demise of a gambling ring.
In September 2009, the police succeeded in destroying a criminal gang that was making illegal profits through gambling on football matches through a long period of investigation and squatting. As the investigation deepened, the police discovered that the suspects involved were not only involved in gambling, but also used gambling tactics to manipulate domestic leagues. This discovery was quickly reported to the national public security system, which then launched a nationwide investigation and a gambling arrest operation.
Evidence available to the police shows that the matches involving gambling were mainly concentrated in the 2006/2007 season of the Central League. At that time, some people from two clubs, Xiamen and Guangzhou, were involved. Among them, the Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals team's 5:1 home victory over the Shanxi Luhu Tigers was suspected of being manipulated. Former executives of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Club, such as Yang Xu and Wu Xiaodong, were targeted by the police for investigation, while the then general manager of Shanxi Luhu Club, Wang Pei, was also investigated by the Liaoning police.
The blackout storm did not end there. As the scope of the investigation expanded, it eventually implicated key FA members such as Xie Yalong, former full-time vice president of the FA, Nan Yong, former vice president of the FA, Yang Yimin, former vice president of the FA, and Zhang Jianqiang, former director of the Refereeing Committee of the National Football Association (NFA), as well as officials and players from a number of clubs.
Twelve years later, will this jolt in Tianjin's soccer world also trigger a wider resonance?
