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Former Chinese National Men’s Football Team Coach Li Tie Prosecuted for Accepting and Offering Bribes

Li Tie, the former coach of the Chinese National Men’s Football Team, was recently prosecuted for five crimes including accepting bribes and offering bribes. (Image source: Wang HE/Getty Images)
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ChinaThe People’s Procuratorate of Hubei Province notified today that the formerChinacountry manfootballTeam coach Li Tie, because of allegedaccepting bribes, offering bribesHe was recently prosecuted for five counts.Chinese authorities are aggressively investigating the men’s soccer teammatch-fixing caseLi Tie is the first high-level person to be prosecuted and sacked.
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The WeChat public account of the People’s Procuratorate of Hubei Province notified on the afternoon of the 2nd,Li TieCases of suspected bribery, bribery, unit bribery, non-state employee bribery, and non-state employee bribery cases were respectively investigated by the Chibi City Supervisory Committee and Chibi City Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province. The investigation was completed and transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution.

Designated by the Hubei Provincial People’s Procuratorate, the Xianning City People’s Procuratorate will review and prosecute the case. Recently, the Xianning Municipal People’s Procuratorate has filed a public prosecution with the Xianning Intermediate People’s Court according to law.

In November 2022, Li Tie was investigated and sacked on suspicion of serious violations of the law.national footballAssociation anti-corruption storm.

According to Sino-Singapore Jingwei reports, since then, 13 high-level officials including Li Tie have been notified and investigated, namely: Liu Yi, executive member of the Chinese Football Association and former secretary-general; Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Football Association; Wang Xiaoping, director of the Disciplinary Committee of the Chinese Football Association; Huang Song, director of the Competition Department of the Chinese Football Association; Yu Hongchen, former vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association; Dong Zheng, former general manager of the Chinese Super League; Li Yuyi, vice chairman; Ma Chengquan, former chairman of the Chinese Super League; Tan Hai, director of the technical department of the Chinese Football Association, and Qi Jun, director of the strategic planning department.

In addition, many professional players and referees suspected of match-fixing and blowing whistles were taken away for investigation.

Li Tie was born in Shenyang, Liaoning in May 1977, and played in the national football team in 2002World Cupalso atPremier LeaguePlaying for Everton.

After Li Tie retired, he successively served as assistant coach of Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Club, assistant coach of China National Men’s Football Team, head coach of China Fortune Club, head coach of Wuhan Zall Club and head coach of the National Men’s Football Selection Team.

At the beginning of 2020, Li Tie took over as the Chinese national men’s football teamcoachbut due to poor record and frequent controversy, on December 3, 2021, the Chinese Football Association announced that it accepted Li Tie’s request to resign.

On November 26, 2022, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Li Tie was suspected of serious violations of the law and is currently being investigated by the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission of the State Sports General Administration and the Hubei Provincial Supervision Commission.

After the news that Li Tie was prosecuted for 5 crimes came out, mainland netizens sparked heated discussions on related news on Weibo.match-fixing caseIt is generally clear that many high-level officials who were subsequently sacked will be prosecuted one after another.

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2023-08-02 15:22:00

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