Details...were

AsisaOne -17  June 2012

There are two mistakes in that sentence alone, both relating to subject-verb agreement. The two instances of was should have been were, since the head noun details is plural and the conjoined noun phrase "he and the entire NKF board" is also plural.

It seems there's a greater tendency for agreement errors of this kind in online news. Here's another one from ChannelNewAsia:

ChannelNewsAsia - 9 July 2012

The correct verb is continues, as the noun penalty is singular.

And a rare one from BBC:

BBC - 9 July 2012

The head noun is results, so the correct auxiliary verb is have.