UK - Reaction to the conviction of three Pakistan cricketers at Southwark crown court has focused on whether it represents a line in the sand or the tip of the iceberg. Many hope it will provide, at the least, a lasting deterrent. But such has been the darkly compelling nature of the human drama on show, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
Pakistan players are small fry in context of $500bn illegal market
Monday, November 7th, 2011Spot-fixing Pakistani cricketers sent to jail
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011UK - A British judge sent three Pakistan cricket players and an agent to prison Thursday for their involvement in one of the biggest fixing scandals to tarnish the sport. The former captain Salman Butt received 21/2 years, the longest term of the three players. Mohammad Asif, 28, was sentenced to 1 year, while Mohammad Amir, [...]
Pakistan cricketers guilty of match fixing in “darkest day in test cricket history”
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011UK - Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty overnight of fixing parts of a Test against England in a case that has thrown the credibility of the international game into doubt. Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif could face jail sentences of up to seven years for the plot to rig events in [...]
Cheating in sport: Smug Australians discover rats in their own ranks
Monday, October 24th, 2011AUSTRALIA - ‘Australia’s sports have been allowed to become soaked in the culture of betting,’ veteran sports commentator Patrick Smith wrote in The Australian. ‘The administrators have allowed betting to become as important as the sport.’ Monsters and Critics & The Australian
Match-fixing claims ‘baseless’: Cricket Australia
Thursday, October 13th, 2011AUSTRALIA – Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland on Tuesday said allegations made in a London court implicating Australian players in match-fixing were baseless claims made by a person of “dubious repute”. Associated Press. And in resonse an excellent editorial by Simon Tatz of the Mental Health Council The sad reality is that as long as gambling [...]
Sports agent – ‘It takes £1million to fix a Test’ (updated)
Thursday, October 13th, 2011UK – A sports agent told an undercover reporter he could fix the results of cricket games using a stable of six Pakistani players, with a Test match costing £1 million to rig, a London court heard Monday. The claim emerged as Mazher Mahmood, the former investigations editor for Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the [...]
Fallen internet tycoon co-operating with prosecutors to bring down 11 online poker executives
Thursday, October 13th, 2011US - Lawyers have fired the first shot in defending a group of online poker bosses accused of laundering billions in illegal earnings that were processed by the fallen Brisbane internet tycoon Daniel Tzvetkoff. Tzvetkoff, 28, who is in hiding in New York, is co-operating with prosecutors to bring down 11 online poker executives, payment processors [...]
Offshore betting loophole sparks Olympics 2012 corruption fear
Sunday, October 9th, 2011UK - The London Olympics next summer should be the glittering highlight of Britain’s sporting decade. But Inside Sport has learned that many sports’ governing bodies have grave fears that the Government is not protecting the Games properly from the threat of betting corruption, and are urging that a simple loophole that can help cheats prosper [...]
Wayne Rooney’s father arrested over alleged football betting scam
Friday, October 7th, 2011UK - Police have arrested Wayne Rooney’s father, his uncle Richie and seven other people, including a Scottish Premier League player, over allegations of a football betting scam. The arrests, carried out across Merseyside and Glasgow, relate to a game between Motherwell and Hearts in December last year, which Hearts won 2-1 following a second half [...]
Pakistan cricketers involved in ‘rampant corruption’
Friday, October 7th, 2011UK - Video of the moment Salman Butt’s agent, Mazhar Majeed, accepted a briefcase brimming with £50 notes has been shown to jurors on the second day of the Pakistan cricketers’ “spot-fixing” trial. The secretly filmed footage was shot in a London hotel room on the evening before the fourth Test opened between Pakistan and England [...]
