KUALA LUMPUR, May 5: Malaysian badminton officials will be on the lookout for the “menace” of match-fixing during the finals of the Thomas and Uber cups in Jakarta next week.

Malaysian sport was rocked by a scandal last month in which six football players from Sarawak were detained by the Anti-Corruption Agency officers investigating match-fixing allegations.

There has also been speculation that players have been involved in arranging results.

The finals of the Thomas and Uber cups, from May 11 to 18 in Jakarta are the most prestigious team events in international badminton.

“Yes, we have heard stories about shuttlers fixing matches but this is only hearsay. It’s very hard to prove such cases,” Nadzmi Salleh, head of the Badminton Association of Malaysia, was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times on Monday.—Reuters