I am doing my best to create the public awareness on the most sophisticated, borderless, multi Billion's worth of criminal activities which is running smoothly under our nose for years.
Before we discuss further, please set your mind that we are going to reveal a criminal activities. It is illegal, moraly corrupted and to some extend, there is a need for some of us to adjust our lifestyle and to be moraly a better person.
Behind every crime activities, there must be a demand for it. People killed wild sharks for its fin, people sell drugs because the drug dealers asked for it. Some people smuggled weaponry accross the border because the warlords demands for it. When we have demand, the supply chain will respond as long as it can generate good money.
As we all know, football have become very commercialized globaly. It is no longer a simple game with great common people's passion. It is a massive industry, we have to acknowledge that. Football matches attracts public attention. And most of the viewer normaly expects their team to win games. To be precise, football fans demand for a good result from their team in any competition.
The final result is what matters most. Final result of a particular football match will decide which team to lead a league table, which team to book a place in a knock out stage of a particular Cup competition. These results normaly attracts public attention. And now, it also attracts criminal attention to make money.
The syndicate will organize or create a pool of funds for betting. This organized underworld pool of funds will invite gamblers who interested to bet for any particular football match. The gamblers will deposited their money for betting activities. Later, the syndicate, who is also the owner of the organized underworld betting scheme, will try their best to get the desired football match result. To do so, they will appoint 'on the field runner'to negotiate with the team's official or players.
For example, if majority of the gamblers bet for a 2-0 win for the home team, then the syndicate will try to minimize their loss by overturn the result like a 1-1 draw or even 0-2 win for the away team. To achieve the 1-1 draw or 0-2 win for the away team, the syndicate will appoint 'ón the field runner'or widely known as 'bookie' in Malaysia. These bookie will approach team officials like the head coach and offer some amount of money to field the players favoured by the syndicate. In the same time, the bookies also have established secret relationship with certain players, in order to get the result.
The head coach will field a starting eleven favoured to the syndicate, while the 'targeted' players will play their role to achieve the desired result. Goalkeepers will concede soft goals, a defender might purposely committed a foul inside penalty box and give away a penalty kick to the opponent, a striker purposely miss a glorious chance in front of goal and etc.
With technology advancement available nowadays, these syndicate operating worldwide with maximum profitable returns. Back to my concern, the demand for this criminal activities originated from a single betting or gambling activity. When the demand is there, they supply chain responded by the syndicate.
Gambling leads to bribery, bribery leads to 'fixed match result', corrupted officials or team players then deposited the money into the bank which is completing the money laundering cycle. So, three forms of sins generated from this whole syndicate. I want to highlight the bad effects of gambling activities to our society. It is not a question of whether gambling is legaly allowed or not, but moraly, gambling activities bring more harm to the society.
Some gamblers choose to gamble or bet to earn quick wealth. But my advice is, gambling is not the right way to build wealth. You need to put a fair and reasonable amount of effort to earn a well deserved wealth. Lets change Malaysia, say no to gambling.
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