Five Sarawak players were brought in for questioning last week following a series of heavy defeats deemed to be suspicious.

ACA director general Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan, however, believes the recent events are not part of an international syndicate with just one individual under suspicion of trying to bribe the players.

"To date, the Sarawak ACA has only arrested a suspect, who is believed to have contacted the players and offered money to them to fix matches," he said.

"We also have yet to receive information on other teams but we have received good cooperation from the FA of Malaysia on the matter and hope that everything will go well in the efforts to curb match-fixing in football."

The FA of Malaysia recently established a task force assigned the task of proposing corrective and preventive measures for match fixing, a problem which has an established history in the region.

In 1994, 21 players and coaches received life bans, while 58 more were suspended for between one and four years, while last month six players from former S-League side Liaoning Guangyuan were jailed in Singapore for match-fixing offences.