JOHANNESBURG: The general manager of South Africa’s best-known football club and two other men have been arrested on allegations of fraud and forgery in connection to the building of a 2010 World Cup stadium.

Kaizer Chiefs, the 11-time South African champion, says Bobby Motaung appeared in court Thursday in the northern city of Nelspruit alongside businessman Herbert Theledi.

A third man was in custody in Cape Town and would be transferred to Nelspruit.

McIntosh Polela, spokesman for South Africa’s economic and organized crime unit, says they are accused of using a forged tax document in winning a $17 million contract to help build the Mbombela Stadium. The stadium cost a total of $145 million and hosted four games at the World Cup.

Motaung is the son of Kaizer Chiefs chairman and founder Kaizer Motaung.