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PNG football chief quits

By afp
April 12, 2018

SYDNEY: Scandal-tainted football chief David Chung has quit as head of the Papua New Guinea Football Association, days after resigning as Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) president over corruption concerns.Chung stepped down on Friday as Oceania’s top football official citing “personal reasons”.But FIFA subsequently revealed an audit had uncovered “potential irregularities” in the construction of a lavish new Auckland headquarters for the OFC. The world governing body has temporarily suspended all funding to Oceania.The Malaysian-born Chung’s fall is now complete after he also resigned as president of the PNGFA, a position he had held since 2004, a statement on its website said Wednesday.