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Allegations first surfaced in 2019, at which point Hafidz was fired from his role as a manger at Swim Schooling.<\/p>\n<p>Hafidz worked in communications for the Singapore Swimming Association in 2016, at the time of Schooling\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/joseph-schooling-wins-singapores-first-ever-olympic-swimming-medal-with-100-fly-victory\/\">star turn at the Rio Olympics<\/a>. He was hired as an administrator at Swim Schooling in 2017 and later promoted to manager.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents indicate that he intends to plead guilty. Hafidz is out on bail and will return to court on Oct. 8. He faces up to 10 years in jail for each charge.<\/p>\n<p>Hafidz was arrested in July 2019 after several people claimed to have bought tickets from him to an International Champions Cup (ICC) football match between Manchester United and Inter Milan. After payments, to Hafidz, the clients never received tickets and couldn\u2019t contact Hafidz. That led to larger questions of Hafidz&#8217;s dealings, and the probe expanded to include allegedly fraudulent tickets for a US concert in 2019 as well as shoe and apparel deals that weren\u2019t delivered on.<\/p>\n<p>Schooling became an icon in Singapore in 2016, becoming the nation\u2019s first ever Olympic gold medalist in any sport. He won the men\u2019s 100-meter butterfly in an Olympic record of 50.39, spoiling <strong>Michael Phelps\u2019<\/strong> bid at a four-peat in the event. The University of Texas grad finished ahead of a three-way tie for silver. With the S$1 million bonus from the Games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-gold-medalist-joseph-schooling-starts-swim-school-in-singapore\/\">he set up Swim Schooling<\/a>, using his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/joseph-schooling-named-singapore-sportsman-of-the-year\/\">newfound national fame<\/a> to grow the sport in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manager of Joseph Schooling Swim School Charged with Fraud in Singapore Mohamed Hafidz Ja\u2019afar, a former manager of Joseph Schooling\u2019s swim school in Singapore, was charged with 21 counts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":316406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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