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LONDON. — The Ghana Football Association (GFA) said on Sunday it had asked police to investigate reports in a British newspaper that the national team was set to play in a friendly organised by match fixers. The Daily Telegraph report claimed that GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi had agreed a US$170 000 contract for the national team to play in a match in which the officials had been selected by a bogus investment firm, against Fifa rules.
Nyantakyi maintains he never read the contract.

The GFA issued a statement stating that no contract had been signed and that it had asked police to investigate “two persons for misrepresenting the GFA with an attempt to defraud.”

It named the two men as Christopher Forsythe, a registered Fifa agent, and Obed Nketiah, a senior figure in the GFA.
Nketiah and Forsythe had previously met with undercover reporters from the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, believing them to be from an investment firm keen on “sponsoring” a friendly match, the paper reported.

The two men, along with the reporters, then met with Nyantakyi at a Miami hotel earlier this month to discuss the contract, according to the report.

“We wish to state that the GFA did not sign the contract as we waited for the response from the Legal Committee,” said the GFA statement. — AFP.