Twenty-six people were charged in connection with an alleged bribery and point-shaving scheme involving men’s basketball games at the NCAA Division I and Chinese professional levels, United States Attorney David Metcalf announced Thursday.
The bribery charges carry a maximum sentence of five years and the fraud charges up to 20 years.
The indictment is the latest in a string of illegal gambling and game-fixing episodes in the seven years since the United States Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, the federal statute that had restricted legal betting to primarily Nevada.