A semi-professional soccer team in Queensland is the latest club to become embroiled in the match-fixing scandal.
Two British players who represented Brisbane Premier League club Albany Creek Excelsior, who also turned out for the Southern Stars in Melbourne, are understood to be persons of interest in the police investigation.
Victorian police arrested the Southern Stars coach and eight of his players on Sunday amid allegations they had rigged a number of games at the behest of south-east Asian match fixers, including the notorious Wilson Raj Perumal.
One of the British players who represented Albany Creek left for England a week before match-fixing arrests were made, but the whereabouts of the other, who had also lived in England but has played internationally for Antigua and Barbuda, are unknown.
The pair joined Albany Creek in June, after starting the season with the Stars. The duo played their first match for Albany Creek on June 29. In seven matches with the two players both in the side, Albany Creek won two matches and lost five. Albany Creek's record before the pair arrived was five wins and nine losses; the club has not drawn a match all season.
The players have gone to ground, deleting their Twitter accounts and not responding to requests for comment.
The pair had the most promising junior careers of all the players embroiled in the scandal, one a former England under-19 representative and the other trialling for English Premier League club Arsenal.
The former England junior international was on the cusp of an English Premier League debut with Charlton Athletic before the 2006-07 season, outscoring the club's well-known international strikers Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank and Darren Bent in pre-season fixtures. He was injured less than two weeks before the first game of the season and loaned out to lower-grade club Bristol Rovers.
Football Brisbane president Robert O'Connor said the organisation was not aware players from a Brisbane Premier League club were under investigation.
He said the league would co-operate with any inquiry, but was unable to comment further.
Police will also investigate whether AFC Hornchurch, the Essex club where three Stars players were recruited from, had matches influenced by the syndicate during the 2012-13 conference south season. The club was relegated after the 2012-13 season.
Joe Woolley, Reiss Noel and another Stars player who cannot be named all played for AFC Hornchurch. Mr Woolley and Mr Noel were each charged on Sunday with eight offences relating to the fixing of four Stars matches.
Segaran ''Gerry'' Gsubramaniam, who is alleged to be the Australian ''bigwig'' of the operation, faces 10 charges. Coach Zaya Younan, and British players David Obaze and Nicholas McKoy also face eight charges. The players are all defenders, apart from Mr Woolley, who is a goalkeeper.
Four players from England, Romania and Hungary were released pending further inquiries.
Investigations are continuing into how Perumal was able to orchestrate the VPL scandal while under police custody. Perumal is assisting in the investigation into Hungarian match fixing and Tan Seet Eng, known as Dan Tan.