While the International Cricket Council (ICC) is currently carrying out an investigation on the corruptions in Sri Lanka cricket, the Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Alex Marshall claimed that most of the corrupt international bookies are Indians.
Since a sting operation has been broken out that claimed some recent past international matches in Sri Lanka were involved in corruptions and some future matches in Sri Lanka are also under the same questions, ICC has investigated on this. Ongoing England’s tour of Sri Lanka is also under the scanner of investigators.
When Marshall was asked whether the corruptors in Sri Lanka cricket are all local or not, he replied to ESPNcricinfo, “In Sri Lanka it was both local and Indian corruptors. In most other parts of the world it is mostly corrupt Indian bookies.”
Recently in this week, the legendary Sri Lankan all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya has been charged for violating ICC’s anti-corruption code after not co-operating in the investigations.
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In the ongoing England tour of Sri Lanka, ACU has briefly described to both the about the active corruptors in cricket with important details.
Marshall said on that, “During the briefing (to England and Sri Lanka players), we showed names and pictures of active corruptors in cricket who were trying to get at players both in Sri Lanka and at tournaments elsewhere in the world.
“So we have openly shared the current information of active corruptors, we have shown their pictures, given their names and details. This way we felt the players are better informed. The exercise has already lead to new information coming forward from the teams.”
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According to the ACU chief, the ICC is currently monitoring 12-20 very active corruptors, including a few numbers of women.
Marshall said, “We showed them six. There are probably 12-20 very active corruptors that we are currently monitoring. The pictures shown were all men, but there are couple of women, too, involved in the whole picture.”
