In the latest case of Singapore making the news for the wrong reasons, two Singaporeans were charged with manipulating lower-league English football matches in British court yesterday.

Seven people were arrested earlier this week in an investigation by the recently formed National Crime Agency (NCA).

Five have been released but two of them in custody are Chann Sankaran, 33, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, a 43-year-old with dual British and Singapore nationality.

Sankaran (pictured below) and Ganeshan have been accused of conspiring to defraud bookmakers by influencing the course of matches and placing bets on them between Nov. 1 and Nov. 26 this year.

Sources in Singapore said Sankaran was never known to be a big-time fixer.

He has been described to be "loud" and "not the most discreet" about his activities.

In a Google+ profile, he listed "investment in sport management" as his occupation, with skills in "investment".

Under education, he listed it as "International Betting College".

Sankaran had revealed, during an undercover sting by The Telegraph newspaper, that he is working with Wilson Raj Perumal, 45, a convicted match-fixer who was arrested in 2011 in Finland and has since been assisting law enforcement agencies worldwide.

But Wilson Raj, a Singaporean who is currently under house arrest in Hungary, denied the allegation saying Sankaran was acting on his own and set up.

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