International team under corruption probe by ICC

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ICC Anti-Corruption body chief Flanagan. (Photo Source: Twitter)

The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption unit has prevented a potential spot-fixing scandal and is investigating an international team for alleged attempts to manipulate future matches, the chief of the unit has said. While revealing news of the probe, ICC anti-corruption unit head Sir Ronnie Flanagan would not disclose details of the case as members of the international side are still being investigated.

“It will be very difficult for me to talk about specific details about an ongoing case, but quite recently we have a reason to believe that members of a particular team have intentions to manipulate events in forthcoming matches,” Flanagan told reporters in Mumbai ahead of the World T20.

“This was an international team but I am not going to go into any details because it is still under our investigation. Certain individuals, we believed, had intention to manipulate events to facilitate betting on those events. Just like police have to make these operational decisions – in terms of how long or how far you allow something to develop or when do you intervene – we decided in this particular case we would intervene immediately” he added.

He stated, “We would focus on individuals who we suspected, but we would remind the entire squad of all their responsibilities. Am certain that our action in that particular case did indeed avert the intention of just one or two individuals, and we have taken action in relation to those individuals and we will be taking further action.”

He refused to elaborate on the “ongoing” matter but cited it as an example of the ACU acting on intelligence received and playing a proactive role in preventing acts of corruption.

On how the ACU could earn the faith of the players, Flanagan assured that the unit took every report seriously and kept the complainants in the loop. He also said a dedicated hotline was set up for the World T20 for players and officials to reach out. “That’s my responsibility, to make sure that the players do have confidence that when they report something [that] something will be done about it. Everyone has a right to fairness, so as a general policy we don’t act on one uncorroborated report. We look for supporting evidence, we begin an investigation,” Flanagan said.

Flanagan also defended the ACU saying it didn’t have the “powers of the police force” and that its efficiency shouldn’t be judged by the number of people prosecuted. He described BCCI’s proposed tie-up with the Maharashtra state police as a positive step and encouraged other member units to enter into similar intelligence-sharing arrangements with law enforcement agencies in their respective countries.

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