Whistle-blower coach sentenced to a week’s jail for role in falsifying race records

Faiz, 33, had first pleaded guilty on Aug 26 to falsifying the competition results of an overseas event.

Published Sep 14, 2026, 02:55 PM

Updated Sep 14, 2026, 02:55 PM

Former national fin swimming coach Muhammad Faiz Suhaimi was jailed for a week after pleading guilty to falsifying race results to help athletes qualify for the 2023 Sea Games.

The falsification was orchestrated by head coach Ho Ho Huat to include more athletes, including his daughter, by creating false electronic competition records from a Malaysian event.

The judge highlighted the importance of honesty in sports and gave Faiz credit for whistleblowing, but stressed the need to deter such offences to protect the integrity of national representation.

SINGAPORE – A former national fin swimming team coach has been sentenced to a week’s jail after pleading guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to falsify race results of athletes at an overseas fin swimming event .

Muhammad Faiz Suhaimi, 33, had first pleaded guilty on Aug 26 to falsifying the competition results of an overseas event , which were later used to support the nomination of six athletes for selection to represent Singapore in the 2023 SEA Games held in Phnom Penh.

Fin swimming is a sport in which athletes swim on the water’s surface or underwater while wearing fins on their feet.

Delivering the sentence on Sept 14, District Judge Ong Luan Tze said that while he applauded Faiz’s courage in voluntarily disclosing the offences – a short custodial term would still be required.

This comes after both the prosecution and defence agreed that a stiff fine was sufficient in Faiz’s case, noting that the case was discovered only because of his whistle-blowing.

Said the judge: “I agree that substantial mitigating weight ought to be given to this factor. First, it demonstrates genuine remorse. Second, there is clearly public interest in encouraging people to step forward and own up to their offending.

“However, the weight to be attributed to this must be balanced against the severity of the offending, and the public interest in deterring such offences from arising in the first place.”

The court had previously heard that Faiz was a team manager and fin swimming coach at the Singapore Underwater Federation, working under the vice-president and head coach Ho Ho Huat, 56, at the time.

The scheme started in December 2022, after Ho found out some fin swimming events had been removed from the 2023 SEA Games. This meant some of the athletes he wanted to select would not be eligible, including his daughter.

Ho wanted to nominate more athletes to be sent to the games through the appeal process but knew that he needed the athletes to have qualifying results in a sanctioned competition to do so.

After finding out that there was a competition being held in Malaysia in January 2023, Ho decided to send five male athletes to participate.

Both Ho and Faiz attended the competition together and knew that the athletes they had sent did not participate in the 4x200m relay surface event.

A few days after the Malaysian competition, Ho brought up the idea of falsifying the results of the event to Faiz, who was hesitant but eventually relented.

The defence argued that Faiz had done so as Ho was more senior than him, and he was afraid to question him. On Jan 18, 2023, Faiz used computer software to make false electronic records for the results of the Malaysian competition.

As a result of the falsified records , six athletes – who would have otherwise not been selected to represent Singapore – were chosen to go to the SEA Games.

The Singapore National Olympic Council incurred an additional expense of $15,691.15 to send the six athletes to the competition.

Faiz informed an anonymous whistle-blower of the scheme in January 2024, after Ho was removed from the Singapore Underwater Federation in December 2023.

Ho’s case has been fixed for a pre-trial conference for Oct 1.

Said the judge: “To don the Singapore colours at an international sporting event like the SEA Games is the dream of countless aspiring athletes... We owe it to those athletes and to the spirit of sport itself to ensure that the pathway to national representation is governed by nothing other than honest assessment and scrupulously accurate results.”

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33岁的费兹于8月26日首次承认伪造海外赛事的比赛结果。

发布于 2026 年 9 月 14 日下午 2:55

更新于2026年9月14日下午2:55

前国家蹼泳教练穆罕默德·法伊兹·苏海米承认篡改比赛成绩以帮助运动员获得 2023 年东南亚运动会参赛资格，被判入狱一周。

主教练何浩发策划了这起造假事件，目的是通过伪造马来西亚某项赛事的电子比赛记录，将包括他女儿在内的更多运动员纳入其中。

法官强调了体育诚信的重要性，并赞扬了费兹的举报行为，但强调需要遏制此类违法行为，以保护国家代表队的诚信。

新加坡——一名前国家蹼泳队教练承认参与合谋伪造运动员在海外蹼泳比赛中的成绩，被判处一周监禁。

33 岁的 Muhammad Faiz Suhaimi 于 8 月 26 日首次承认伪造海外赛事的比赛结果，这些结果后来被用来支持提名六名运动员代表新加坡参加 2023 年在金边举行的东南亚运动会。

蹼泳是一项运动员穿着脚蹼在水面或水下游泳的运动。

9月14日，地方法官王銮泽宣判时表示，虽然他赞赏法伊兹自愿披露罪行的勇气，但仍需判处其短期监禁。

此前，控辩双方都认为，对费兹处以重罚就足够了，并指出此案的发现完全是因为他的举报。

法官说：“我同意应该对这一因素给予相当大的减刑权重。首先，这表明被告人真心悔过。其次，鼓励人们主动承认自己的罪行显然符合公众利益。”

“但是，必须权衡这种做法的分量与犯罪的严重程度，以及从源头上阻止此类犯罪发生的公共利益。”

法庭此前获悉，费兹曾担任新加坡水下运动联合会的团队经理和蹼泳教练，当时在副主席兼总教练何浩发（56岁）手下工作。

这项计划始于2022年12月，当时何先生得知一些蹼泳项目已被从2023年东南亚运动会中取消。这意味着他想挑选的一些运动员将没有参赛资格，包括他的女儿。

何先生想通过申诉程序提名更多运动员参加比赛，但他知道这些运动员需要先在官方认可的比赛中取得资格赛成绩才能做到这一点。

得知马来西亚将于 2023 年 1 月举行一场比赛后，何决定派出五名男运动员参加。

何和法伊兹一同参加了比赛，并且知道他们派出的运动员没有参加 4x200 米接力赛。

马来西亚比赛结束后几天，何向法伊兹提出了篡改比赛结果的想法，法伊兹虽然犹豫不决，但最终还是同意了。

辩方辩称，费兹之所以这样做，是因为何先生的资历比他高，他不敢质疑何先生。2023年1月18日，费兹利用电脑软件伪造了马来西亚比赛的电子成绩记录。

由于记录造假，六名原本不会被选派代表新加坡参赛的运动员被选中参加东南亚运动会。

新加坡国家奥林匹克理事会为送这六名运动员参加比赛额外支出 15,691.15 美元。

2024 年 1 月，在何某于 2023 年 12 月被新加坡水下联合会除名后，费兹向一位匿名举报人透露了该计划。

何某的案件已定于10月1日举行审前会议。

法官说：“能够代表新加坡参加东南亚运动会这样的国际体育赛事，是无数怀揣梦想的运动员的梦想……为了这些运动员，也为了体育精神本身，我们有责任确保国家队选拔过程完全基于诚实的评估和一丝不苟的准确结果。”

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