{"id":8328,"date":"2016-05-04T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:50:48","slug":"de-toppers-in-een-omkoopschandaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/ex-deelnemers\/de-toppers-in-een-omkoopschandaal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toppers in a bribery scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening was in the Dutch television program <em>focal point<\/em> reported the fact that the <strong>Toppers<\/strong> in 2009 were approached to take part in a match-fixing scandal that would affect the final results of the early festival.<\/p>\n<p>The statements were made yesterday by Benno de Leeuw, the manager of the <strong>Toppers<\/strong>. During the interview he stated that was approached by a &#8216; East-European party &#8216; that offered for a fee to manipulate the vote. The vote would be affected by an ingenious SMS-system.<\/p>\n<p>The Toppers, then consisting of <strong>Gordon<\/strong>, <strong>Ren\u00e9 Froger<\/strong> and <strong>Jeroen van der Boom<\/strong>, would have known nothing, thus strengthen the lion. <strong>Jeroen van der Boom<\/strong> speaks that then again, but says that they never seriously have considered.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronieuws.nl\/nieuws\/showbizz\/2016\/05\/songfestival-toppers-benaderd-voor-omkoping\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> full article that appeared in the Dutch magazine <em>Metro<\/em> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our homepage for all English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,356],"tags":[222,219,17,223,220,1045,54,224,19],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ex-deelnemers","category-nl","tag-de-toppers","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovision","tag-gerard-joling","tag-gordon","tag-jeroen-van-der-boom","tag-nederland","tag-rene-froger","tag-songfestival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}