Probe begins into rigged games, bets

GUANGZHOU: A city soccer official and a former senior executive of a soccer club are being investigated for illegally betting on games.

Both Yang Xu, an official from the Guangzhou Football Association, and Wu Xiaodong, former deputy general manager of Guangzhou Yiyao Club, have been detained and are being questioned by police in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, according to Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily.

The pair, who were suspected of rigging games in 2006, were investigated after police in Liaoning recently busted a gambling gang that controlled the domestic matches of the Chinese Super League (CSL).