• Delhi police have appealed to the Delhi High Court following the dropping of spot-fixing charges by a New Delhi trial court earlier this year, as reported at the time by the Sports Integrity Initiative. On 25 July, the trial court discharged 36 of the 42 accused, including cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandilia and Ankeet Chavan, all of whom played for the Rajasthan Royals franchise in the Indian Premier League. Those acquitted were done so by the court due to insufficient evidence needed to prove the spot-fixing charges.

However according to the Press Trust of India, the Delhi Police contended that the trial court had erroneously interpreted the law pertaining to Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), under which the original charges were brought. The Indian Express reported that a special cell of the Delhi police had filed the appeal citing a ‘failure to properly appreciate the evidence before it [the trial court]’.

• South Korean police have reportedly announced a formal investigation into match-fixing and illegal gambling by 26 former and current athletes. According to The Korean Times, the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency said that those accused had allegedly placed illegal bets on Internet gambling sites from 2009 to March of this year.

Among those charged is reportedly a recently retired basketball player from South Korea’s professional league, the Korean Basketball League (KBL), as well as other athletes involved in basketball, judo and wrestling. The Korea Times have also named one of those accused as current basketballer Kim Sun-Hyung, a KBL All-Star guard for the SK Knights who allegedly made illegal bets as a college student.

Local reports have said that, according to police, Hyung and another accused named Park both acknowledged that they had made illegal bets but denied that they conspired to throw the KBL game.

• Allegations of match-fixing against two football clubs in the Calcutta Football League in India have arisen in the local media. Two Calcutta clubs are accused of conspiring to mutually fix a match in the league which meant that one of the clubs, Tollygunge Agragami, was pulled out of the relegation zone after they won.

The match, between Tollygunge Agragami and Southern Samiti, took place on 3 September 2015 and was won 4-0 by Tollygunge. It is alleged that Southern Samiti had agreed to concede a goal and give away the three points to their opponents, who were in danger of relegation.