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20th March 2017, 13:29 #1
[REPORT] PSL fixing scandal: Khalid Latif admits being offered Rs. 4 million
KARACHI: Batsman Khalid Latif Monday admitted he was offered Rs. 4 million by a bookie during the recently concluded Pakistan Super League (PSL) season, ARY News reported.
The Islamabad United player, during an investigation conducted by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), said he was approached by the bookie in the team hotel in Dubai but he rejected the offer.
However, according to ARY News sources, Khalid has been charged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for tempting fellow players to fix matches for the hefty amount —an offence, which can lead him to a five-year ban at least and a life-long ouster from the game at most.
The widening scandal, which has so far ensnared four other current or former national stars, namely Shahzaib Hasan, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed and Sharjeel Khan, has tainted the recently completed PSL, hailed as a step towards restoring international cricket in the country after the final in Lahore.
A guilty verdict for the players would prove disastrous for Pakistan cricket, which was last rocked by a match-fixing scandal in 2010 that deprived it of three top players including paceman Mohammad Amir, who has since made a comeback.
The scandal surfaced on February 10 when Khalid and fellow Islamabad United player Sharjeel were suspended and expelled from the PSL on charges of receiving offers from a suspicious man linked to an international betting syndicate.
A third United player, Irfan, was also suspended on Tuesday for not reporting offers from bookmakers.
While Nasir was also provisionally suspended on charges of being a “go between” in the spot-fixing incident. the left-handed opener and another unnamed person were arrested in Britain last month but were bailed until April.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said Thursday the players could face jail terms.
https://arysports.tv/psl-fixing-scan...-rs-4-million/
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20th March 2017, 14:56 #2Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said Thursday the players could face jail terms.
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20th March 2017, 14:59 #3
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20th March 2017, 15:01 #4
Tape Ball Star
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Crime,if, committed at foreign soil so FIA has no jurisdiction
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20th March 2017, 15:02 #5
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20th March 2017, 15:05 #6
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20th March 2017, 15:18 #7
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20th March 2017, 15:27 #8
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Techincally no, it isn't. You could go and decide to throw your wicket away tomorrow, and no one would care - its a game.
What is illegal under UK law is attemting to defaud bookmakers, i.e. fix games
with the intent to cheat bookmakers out of money. Match fixing, or spot fixing - no difference. So long as you are cheating the betting markets, its the same crime.
Only people that care about whether a match was fixed and the result ruined as a result, are cricket fans.
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20th March 2017, 16:04 #9
Tape Ball Regular
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This act needs to be criminalised in Pakistan. Yes send them to jail. The bookies should also be sent to jail.
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20th March 2017, 17:30 #10
Even if he did reject the offer why didn't he report it? $40,000 is hardly pocket change either.
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20th March 2017, 17:47 #11