KATHMANDU: Hearing on match-fixing accused footballers has concluded on Tuesday, however, the final decision is pending.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range had arrested the footballers from different parts of the Kathmandu Valley on October 14 before the Dashain vacation and presented before the Special Court on October 27.

A day after arresting five footballers on match-fixing charges, they issued a press release with the list of fixed matches and amounts received by the footballers.

But, the government prosecutors failed to produce the alleged transaction papers between the match-fixing accused footballers and international agents as claimed by the police, before the Special Court on Monday.

The Office of the Attorney General on Sunday had registered the subversion case against national team skipper Sagar Thapa, Sandeep Rai, Ritesh Thapa, Anjan KC and Bikash Singh Chhetri at Special Court, as per Section 3.3.1 of the Crime against State and Punishment Act, 1989.

The KMPR had claimed that the footballers received $3,061 to $5,000 from the various matches of Merdeka Cup, Nehru Cup, SAFF Championship, Asian Games and international friendlies from 2008-2014. The ANFA and Asian Football Confederation have provisionally suspended the accused players from football-related activities.

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