da gbg bet： The ICC’s Anti-Corruption Security Unit has begun an investigationinto the claims of Shoaib Akhtar, who said last week he was offered money to under-perform in matches in South Africa and India
da bet esporte： Cricinfo staff08-Apr-2008
Shoaib Akhtar’s match-fixing claims have brought a team from the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit to Pakistan © AFP
The ICC’s Anti-Corruption Security Unit (ACSU) has begun an investigationinto the claims of Shoaib Akhtar, who said last week he was offered moneyto under-perform in matches in South Africa and India.Sources close to the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed to Cricinfothat the team had arrived and investigations had begun, though thereconfusion remains over whether they have completed their task or are stillhere. One source close to the investigation said that the team had alreadyleft, having interviewed several players.Details of the visit are currently sketchy and the ICC has refused toconfirm or deny the development, maintaining that it does not comment onthe movement of the ACSU. A report in claimed that theinvestigators had spoken to Younis Khan, who was vice-captain and stand-incaptain on Pakistan’s last tour to India, and Umar Gul.The investigation comes after Shoaib told Geo TV last week, “A briefcasefull of money was placed before me and I was asked to under-bowl in amatch at Johannesburg but I refused. Then on tour to India I was offeredmoney but I again turned it down.” Dates were not specified on eitheroccasion but the ICC said subsequently the claims would be investigated.The claims came after Shoaib was handed a five-year ban over a series ofbreaches of the players’ code of conduct, including public criticism ofthe PCB. Under its own code of conduct the ICC can ban a player who failsto disclose any approaches for fixing to his captain or to his teammanager or to a senior board official or to the ICC’s officials from oneto five years.
