Malaysian charged ‘theft’ in AFC office

A Malaysian man was charged on Wednesday with stealing documents from the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, a government prosecutor said. Kong Lee Toong, husband of the AFC’s former finance director Amelia Gan, pleaded not guilty to the charge in a court in the capital, Kee Wei Lon, deputy public prosecutor in the Malaysian attorney-general’s office, told AFP. The charge comes amid an increasingly bitter battle between the governing body of Asian football and its suspended president Mohamed Bin Hammam, who is being investigated by the AFC for what it calls possible corrupt activities. The AFC had lodged a complaint with police over missing documents reportedly relating to a large payment made to Hammam in 2008.