The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) wants to clean up its reputation as a corrupt and controversial organisation. As one of his first acts in office, the newly elected president Ching-Kuo Wu has set up a reform committee and appointed IOC executive board member Gerhard Heiberg as its chairman.

FIFA vice president Jack Warner’s son Daryan illegally resold World Cup tickets, says FIFA. Warner himself escapes sanctions because FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee could not find any proof that Warner knew about it. However, had the case been tried under FIFA’s new Code of Ethics, Warner might not have been able to get away with only a telling-off.

In Kenya, the Kenya Premier League has reconfirmed its commitment to ensure corruption-free football and continue its league matches. It happens in the face of continued political pressure on the clubs and the attempt to establish another football league under the auspices of the caretaker committee that has replaced the Kenya Football Federation.

Knowledge bank: Sepp Blatter suggests that professional referees could put an end to match fixing. In England, the FA has a group of paid referees and so far no instances of match fixing. But a refereeing career is short and may not pay enough.

Knowledge bank: Match fixing is emerging everywhere football is played and can no longer be termed one-offs. More often than not match fixing occurs in less prominent leagues and lower divisions and the bets are set on teams to lose.

Knowledge bank: Good fixers are experts on human nature, explains a journalist and academic who has researched the dynamics of match fixing.

The president of the French Olympic Committee has been found guilty of corruption charges and has received a suspended sentence of three months in jail. Henri Serandour was accused of giving two lucrative jobs from the national Olympic Committee to a communication company that employs his wife.

Cambodia has elected a new president of its national Olympic Committee to replace Prince Norodom Ranariddh who is accused of squandering the committee’s money on five star hotels. Earlier this year the country’s Prime Minister Hun Sen decided that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports should supervise sport in the country, not the Olympic Committee.