da pinup bet： In a follow up to the betting and match-fixing scandal, the CBI hasdecided to provide further assistance to the International CricketCouncil to unravel the entire ramifications of the menace
05-Jul-2001In a follow up to the betting and match-fixing scandal, the CBI hasdecided to provide further assistance to the International CricketCouncil to unravel the entire ramifications of the menace.A CBI team, which was recently in London, met the Anti-Corruption headof the world cricket body, Paul Condon, and discussed “certain thingsof mutual interest,” official sources said in New Delhi today. Theysaid the ICC has shown great interest in “picking up the threads” fromthe CBI investigations in the case of nine foreign players named byvarious Indian bookies.The CBI, in its 162-page report had named nine foreign players, whohad either been named or had allegedly accepted money from Indianbookies. The agency had clarified in the report that the probe againstthe foriegn players could not be completed as it was beyond itsjurisdiction.The sources said the ICC had assured the CBI that almost all cricketboards of the countries, whose players have been named in the report,were probing the role of these players at their end and the worldcricket body was constantly monitoring the developments.The CBI also shared some more information about the bookies questionedby it during the six-month long investigations into the case, thesources said.The ICC has sought addresses and telephone numbers of some Mumbaibased bookies which the agency has agreed to provide, the sourcessaid.In particular, the ICC has asked about the addresses of two Mumbaibased bookies, who have allegedly been involved with cricketers ofPakistan and Sri Lanka, the sources added.The ICC has also furnished to the CBI some names, which have come upduring the apex cricket body’s probe into the scandal, for locatingtheir whereabouts and the agency has assured necessary help in thecase, the sources said.They said the probe could be completed only with assistance from theinternational organisations like ICC and other countries. The sourcessaid that sleuths of Special Crime Branch had made some headway intothe investigations into the nexus and preliminary reports indicatedthat some bookies were acting at the behest of underworld mafia infixing cricket matches. They said the accounts and other importantbooks of bookies had been scrutinised but added this was a wide areaand needed a detailed investigation before fixing responsibilities.