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divdiv class=story-body readability=35 span class=story-date#13; span class=date28 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time15:56 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1Two people have been charged over alleged match-fixing in English football, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said./p#13; pSingapore national Chann Sankaran, 33, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, 43, who has dual UK and Singapore nationality, are charged with conspiracy to defraud. /p#13; pThey were among six people held earlier this week, and a seventh person has now been arrested./p#13; pThe BBC understands that none is linked to professional football clubs./p#13; pMr Sankaran and Mr Ganeshan, who are alleged to be members of an illegal betting syndicate, are accused of committing the offences in Manchester and elsewhere./p#13; pThe NCA said the four other people arrested earlier this week were bailed on Thursday pending further inquiries./p#13; pAt least three footballers are reported to be among those held across the country, /p#13; pSources have told the BBC one of the other suspects is former Premier League player Delroy Facey, now a football agent./p#13; span class=cross-head'Suspicious' betting/span#13; #13; pMr Sankaran and Mr Ganeshan are alleged to have conspired with each other and others to defraud bookmakers by influencing the course of football matches and placing bets thereon./p#13; pThe NCA said the maximum sentence for the offences was 10 years in prison./p#13; pCulture Secretary Maria Miller said there was no place for this sort of criminal activity in British sport, but the NCA's action showed robust measures were in place to tackle it./p#13; pShadow sports minister Clive Efford criticised the government for failing to do enough to allow sports' governing bodies to tackle match fixing./p#13; pUnfortunately the government, last week, voted against my amendments to the Gambling Bill that would have fixed the anomaly that exempts sports spread-betting operators from the requirement to pass on details of suspicious betting activity to sports governing bodies, he said./p#13; span class=cross-head'Below the radar'/span#13; pFormer Premier League chief executive Rick Parry said the allegations of match-fixing were no great surprise./p#13; pHe said criminals target lower-level games because the players earn less and so can be easier to bribe./p#13; pHe also said such games were relatively below the radar - and that it would be much harder to fix a televised game without anyone noticing. /p#13; pMr Parry, who is also an ex-chief executive of Liverpool FC, said match-fixing allegations can very rapidly lead to a major loss of confidence and there was no room for complacency./p#13; pThe Football Association said it was aware of the NCA investigation but would not comment any further./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center