Former president of Spain football association RFEF Luis Rubiales has been arrested upon his return to Spain at Madrid airport on Wednesday morning.

The Spanish Football Federation's headquarters and the home of former president Luis Rubiales were raided, resulting in the arrest of six people.

The world's major sporting bodies have taken the first steps to set up a global body to combat sports betting corruption, which they have identified as a greater threat to sporting integrity than doping. So serious are concerns about match-fixing and gambling corruption in sport that the Sports Rights Owners Coalition (SROC), which includes the highest profile representatives of football, rugby and cricket, met in Brussels last week to deliver a report to the European Union designed to protect the future of sport.

The Court of Final Appeal of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has sentenced former SAR Secretary for Public Works and Transport Ao Man Long to 27 years in jail. The 51-year-old official is guilty of 57 of the 76 charges, which include corruption, money laundering, abuse of power and related crimes. In his over two-hour long readout of a summary of the verdict on Wednesday, TUI President Sam Hou Fai said in light of Ao’s bribery cases and related illicit activities of money laundering...

A former senior Macao official was accused in court yesterday of taking USD 100m in kickbacks related to the recent boom in casino construction. Ao Man-long, former secretary for transport and public works, is the territory's highest-ranking official ever to be charged with graft. He faces 76 charges of taking bribes, money-laundering and abuse of power, which allegedly resulted in him and his wife earning 57 times the income their jobs should have netted them over a seven-year period.

Macau (Reuters) - Macau's biggest corruption trial opened on Monday with the court hearing charges that a former top official had taken millions of dollars in kickbacks to speed up construction of the gaming haven's multi-billion-dollar casinos. Former secretary for transport and public works Ao Man-long faces 76 counts of corruption, including accepting bribes, laundering money and abuse of power, shining a spotlight on the crime feeding off Macau's boom but also fanning hopes for stronger supervision.

Hong Kong (Reuters) - The biggest public corruption trial in Macau's history opens on Monday, putting the spotlight on the criminality feeding off the gambling mecca's rapid growth, and fanning hopes for a new era of improved governance. Macau's former secretary for transport and public works, Ao Man-long, faces 76 counts of corruption including alleged bribe-taking, money laundering and abuse of power. Ao, considered a political ally of Macau's leader Edmund Ho, is the most senior Macau official to be tried since the former Portuguese enclave returned to Chinese rule in 1999.

The speech of President Tabaré Vázquez last Friday had several repercussions. The political party Partido Nacional (PN) expects that, according to the president words, political party Frente Amplio supports the creation of an investigative commission in the Parliament due to supposed corruption cases in the Casino National Direction. In the speech in which Tabaré Vázquez made a balance on his performance, he talked about some controversial issues that in recent times have generated concern in the public and the political system.