In footballing history, no figure is more infamous for enabling corruption and collusion than the Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal. In the early 2010s he received his fourth conviction in Finland over a string of backhander deals, up to and including for FA Cup matches. In his memoir Kelong Kings, Perumal wrote: "I'm not a FIFA agent; I'm just a middleman. Someone who goes beyond people's imaginations." He went on to prove how he had been able to engineer the result of more than 80 matches involving national teams, up to the end of 2014.
In the same year, during a Tehran Derby match between Esteghlal and Persepolis, a perfectly healthy goal by Persepolis's Mohammad Nouri was declared offside by referee Morteza Karimi. In a subsequent report by Khabar-e-Razshi, Karimi was quoted as having openly said: "A friend of Parviz Mazloumi, the head coach of Esteghlal, offered me 16 million tomans and a 50-inch LCD TV to stop Esteghlal from losing the match."
Gholam Ganji is one of the most prominent football brokers in Iran, who was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in March 2009 as part of a crackdown on corruption in sport. He spent around four months in Evin Prison, but then went straight back into the same job. The CEO of Arka Iranian, Amir Houshang Saadati, is also one of the closest unofficial intermediaries of Persepolis.