On March 24th, China's soccer anti-gambling and anti-black power action climaxed again. The Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Wang Xiaoping, a member of the CFA's Discipline Inspection Committee, is under strict supervision and review on suspicion of major violations. Meanwhile, Huang Song, head of the CFA's competition department, is also under investigation for alleged serious disciplinary issues. Since Chen Xuyuan's case, the CFA has launched investigations into five of its top executives. Media source Ran Xiongfei revealed that Shenzhen general manager Ding Yong had paid a bribe of up to 50 million yuan to Chen Xuyuan and Liu Yi to weaken the Tianhai team and help the Shenzhen team win a Chinese Super League seat.
Ran Xiongfei further elaborated, "In Ding Yong's case, during his tenure at Tianjin Tianhai, he used a huge sum of 50 million yuan to buy out Chen Xuyuan and Liu Yi with the intention of getting the Tianhai team out of the game for his own personal gain. During the period when I was banned from speaking out, there was one other thing that I couldn't let go of, and that was the Hainan Qiongzhong women's soccer scandal. The women's soccer club in that impoverished county went so far as to use 20 million yuan of government funds to buy so-called expensive physical therapy equipment that was actually worth only 3 to 5 million yuan. We had wanted to build a Chinese soccer health care base in Qiongxiang, but such behavior must not be condoned! How can the 20 million yuan allocated by the state to the women's soccer club be allowed to be squandered by 'scoundrels'?"
