Dan Tan
| Dan Tan | |
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| Native name | 陳薛榮 |
| Born |
Tan Seet Eng 29 April 1964 |
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Other names | Dan Tan |
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳薛榮 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈薛荣 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Xuēróng |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Tân Sih-êng |
Tan Seet Eng (Chinese: 陈薛荣; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Sih-êng), also known by the English name Dan Tan, is a Singaporean businessman. He has faced charges of match fixing in Italy since 2011 and Hungary since 2013 as part of the Calcio scommesse scandal. Despite Interpol considering him the "boss" of the "world's largest and most aggressive match-fixing syndicate", he was not arrested in Singapore until late 2013 since it lacks an extradition treaty with the European Union.
Tan was born on 29 April 1964, and did not graduate from secondary school. In the early 1990s, he spent less than a year in jail for illegal horse-racing and football bookmaking and, in 1994, fled Singapore after losing US$1.5 million on that year's World Cup. He returned after he was allowed to pay off his debts in instalments.
By early 2013, he was a salaried employee, an investor, and a high-stakes gambler. He has a young son and his current wife, the Chinese national Guan Enmei, is thought to be his third. They live modestly and The Straits Times has reported that his friends call him "Ah Blur" from his obliviousness. They describe him as "very jovial and happy-go-lucky" and say he only occasionally watches football, spending most free time watching the stock market.
In 2012, Tan and his family disconnected their phones and left their former gated apartment building for an anonymous replacement after its location was published by Stern and Singaporean newspapers. In March 2013, a "Madam Lim" claimed to be Tan's second wife and complained to Singapore's New Paper that he abandoned her and their two sons ten years before.
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