EUIJEONGBU (Yonhap News) ― Former professional basketball coach Kang Dong-hee was indicted by prosecutors on Friday on charges of fixing games, officials said.
Prosecutors in Euijeongbu, north of Seoul, said Kang was among four people indicted for their role in the first match-fixing scandal to hit the Korean Basketball League. Kang, former head coach of the KBL team Dongbu Promy, was charged with receiving cash from brokers to fix four games during the 2010-2011 KBL season.
Kang first faced the prosecution’s questioning on March 7 as the first active coach of a professional sports team to come under fixing allegations.
Four days later, the Euijeongbu district court granted the prosecution’s request for a warrant to detain Kang. He resigned from his coaching post on March 12.