IPL match-fixing probe:Bookies own team in SLPL

29 May 2013 08:37 am

Mumbai crime branch suspects that Sanjay and Pawan Jaipur, two alleged bookies have huge investment in a franchise which is playing in Sri Lankan Premier League(SLPL).
 
Vindu Dara Singh who has been singing like a canary has made the revelation that two bookies are the benami owners of the franchise.  Sources also say, Prem Talreja one of the accused arrested along with vindoo had confessed that he had done some fixing in Lanka through Tinku..
 
Now Mumbai police have got custody of Tinku who was arrested by Delhi police. Police will verify this Lanka premier league fixing claim from him.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka Premier League on Wednesday denied Vindoo Dara Singh’s claims that two bookies had owned one of the franchises of the SLPL, which conducted its inaugural edition last year.

“No such names figure in the list of SLPL franchise owners,” Ajith Jayasekera, the SLPL chief executive officer, told reporters reacting to Vindu`s claims that two bookies named Sanjay and Pawan are the ‘benami’ owners of one of the franchises in the SLPL.

After the seven-franchise tournament ran into problems in 2011 with the BCCI not permitting the Indian players to take part in the tournament, the first edition, which was to be held the same year, was stalled.

This year’s edition will commence on August 3.

Around 55 foreign players took part in last year’s edition, but there were no participants from India and England. (Daily Bhaskara and Zee news)