Dr Declan Hill is the author of 'The Fix: Organized Crime and Soccer', about Asian match-fixers.
"If the European fixers can sell the matches to Dan Tan, " journalist Stanley Ho told me.
More recently Galileo, a probe now investigating Jupiter, has been the beneficiary of the long-distance fixers' art.
Yes, dear reader, the rich got richer because of the fixers, not because of the rich themselves.
Both sides talked about the need for education targeting those vulnerable to the pressure of the fixers.
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Before 1964, both parties had their conservative and liberal wings, and fixers like Lyndon Johnson had enormous freedom.
The police had previously said that they needed stronger evidence before they could take action against the suspected match-fixers.
Still, the very announcement shed light on a murky underworld of match fixers and illegal betting spanning the globe.
Even with the smartest price fixers and toughest quota captains, shortages will pop up here just as surpluses accumulate there.
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President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's economic reforms lost momentum after two political fixers, Sergio Motta and Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, died in 1998.
History has remembered Rasputin as an almost supernatural fiend, but he was in reality one of the century's great political fixers.
Another snag for would-be price-fixers is legislation to make whistleblowing more attractive.
The unit has had to be content instead with putting measures in place to make life as difficult as possible for would-be fixers.
Foreign correspondents, producers, camera crews, fixers and translators frequently risk their lives to draw attention to the history of the world as it unfolds.
Lawyers with criminal cases involving federal or state authorities also increasingly retain fixers to help prepare their clients to deal with the press and investigators.
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It might seem rudderless without a boss, but the fundamentals of the oil market still point to a fairly comfortable few months ahead for the price-fixers.
At least instead of it going to media companies and to bloviating political fixers like Karl Rove, left to the taxman it goes to the general good.
In America, says Chris Bright of Clifford Chance, a law firm based in London, price-fixers face two other worries that their British counterparts have so far been spared.
There is little doubt that the match fixers' sophisticated inter-continental operations have put them a long way ahead of the rigid rule-bound tactics of those trying to stop them.
Another case, set to go to trial in Las Vegas in early 2009, alleges an oral contract promised three fixers 5% of the Macau operations for helping find a license partner.
The second is that the watchdog is beginning to benefit from the American-style trust-busting powers it was given in 2003: these allow it to bring criminal charges against price-fixers while offering amnesty to whistleblowers.
Singapore's investigation of Mr. Tan "is a good start" but tougher action needs to be taken against the alleged match-fixers, said Declan Hill, an academic and investigative journalist who has reported extensively on global match fixing.
Kremlin fixers, particularly Boris Berezovsky, a magnate now in exile in London, were quick to get their hooks into Mr Lebed, whose military training seemed to have left out much of any ability to judge character or motive.
Declan Hill, author of "The Fix, " a book that saw him spend time with Asian betting syndicates and match fixers, believes that the proliferation of football and technology means that match fixing is now both incredibly easy and virtually untraceable.
"While match fixers use modern technology to carry out their activities, we are still using centuries-old laws and practices to fight this crime against the game of football and this makes us fall behind, " Mr. Noble told a conference in Kuala Lumpur on match-fixing.
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