Referees implicated in soccer scandal

BEIJING - Police investigating soccer match-fixing scandals have taken away four referees, including "gold whistle" Lu Jun, for interrogation, reports said.

The referees are the first from their profession to be targeted after more than 20 officials, players and club managers have been arrested or detained in the clampdown, which began last March.

Shanghai TV reported on Saturday that renowned referee Lu Jun, 53, Huang Junjie, 44, and two other referees from Guangdong and Hebei provinces had been taken to Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, for interrogation.