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Alleged global match-fixer freed in Singapore

A Singaporean businessman accused by Interpol of running a global football match-fixing ring was ordered freed by the city-state's highest court on Wednesday after more than two years of detention without trial.

Dan Tan, who was arrested in September 2013 and held under a special law designed to fight gangsters, was set free after the Court of Appeal ruled that he posed no danger to public safety and order.

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