• WANG XIN: He was general manager of S-League club Liaoning Guangyuan in 2007. He fled Singapore the following year and did not return from China to face charges of match-fixing S-League games. He is on Interpol's wanted list.
• DING ZHE: He was head coach of S-League club Liaoning Guangyuan in 2007. Two years earlier, he was head coach of another S-League club, Sinchi.
• WANG PO: He was general manager of a string of clubs in China, including Harbin, Heilongjiang in 2005. The club was disqualified from the second-tier league for failing to pay up its players' wages.
• YANG XU: Former vice-president of Guangzhou Football Association, deputy general manager of current Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Pharmaceutical FC in 2006.

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