LONDON, CMC – Former Grenada international Delroy Facey has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, media reports here have said.
The 34-year-old, who was arrested last November over his involvement in a match-fixing scandal, is now set to appear in the Cannock Magistrates Court today.
“The Crown Prosecution Service’s Organised Crime Division authorised the charges on the basis that there is a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest,” an NCA spokesman was quoted as saying.
Facey’s charge follows the National Crime Agency’s ongoing investigation into the scandal, which has already seen footballer Michael Boateng and businessmen Chann Sankaran and Krishna Ganeshan, convicted and jailed on the same charge.
Sankaran and Ganeshan were hit with five-year sentences while Boateng received a 16-month term.
The well-travelled Facey played for 14 different clubs in a 16-year career, including Hull City, West Bromwich Albion and Bolton, for whom he made ten Premier League appearances.
Facey was born in Huddersfield but qualified to play for Grenada because his mother was Grenadian.
He debuted for the Spice Boys in 2009 and made 15 appearances.
