NEW DELHI: India’s cricket board has extended a match-fixing crackdown to regional leagues after the arrest of a team owner for making illegal bets with a bookie based outside India, officials said Wednesday.
Ashfaq Ali Thara, owner of a team in the Karnataka Premier League – a state-level Twenty20 competition – was arrested in Bangalore on Tuesday, police said.
Thara, who also owns a team in the Gulf-based T10 League, is under investigation for placing bets with a bookie outside India and is also being quizzed over a possible role in fixing matches.
“He has been arrested for betting and they are investigating other aspects,” Ajit Singh, chief of the anti-corruption unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said.
The incident comes a week after the unit launched an inquiry into an approach by suspected match-fixers to players in this years Tamil Nadu Premier League.
(Agencies)
Comment