da spicy bet： The International Cricket Council on Monday decided to implement allthe recommendations of the Sir Paul Condon report on corruption incricket and gave an ultimatum to Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta tobecome a formal approver by July 1
da pinnacle： 19-Jun-2001The International Cricket Council on Monday decided to implement allthe recommendations of the Sir Paul Condon report on corruption incricket and gave an ultimatum to Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta tobecome a formal approver by July 1.”The ICC has approved the report in full and will be implementing allthe 24 recommendations,” ICC President Malcolm Gray told reporters inLondon after the Executive Board meeting which unanimously approvedCondon’s findings.Condon, who heads the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the ICC, led aworld-wide probe into match-fixing and his findings culminated in a36-page report released last month.Condon told PTI that a two-member team of ACU will travel to Indialater this week to serve the ultimatum on Gupta who claimed to havegiven money to a number of international cricketers and figuredprominently in the CBI report on betting and match-fixing.”My team will be in India later this week in pursuance of thismessage. Gupta will be a formal witness or he won’t,” Condon said.Condon said he had met Gupta twice in March this year and the bookiehad verbally confirmed all his allegations he made to CBI. “(But) thatis not enough to move forward with disciplinary proceedings (againstthe players). We have to have evidence to bring some closure to allthis as otherwise it will be unfair to allow the cloud of suspicion tohang over the players’ heads,” he said.”I have given Gupta an ultimatum that it is necessary to let us knowby July 1 whether he is willing to cooperate with his evidence eitherin India or outside. If he fails to heed to the ultimatum, we mustassume that he is not prepared to cooperate further,” Condon said.He said ICC would guarantee Gupta his safety if he agreed to testifybefore the ACU.Condon also reaffirmed his intention to talk to England stand-incaptain Alec Stewart about allegations that he accepted cash fromGupta. “When the CBI report was issued last year, Stewart denied theallegations and wanted to come and see me, and give his side of thestory. His is exactly the same position as other people’s. I amanxious to see him. We are waiting for an early meeting,” said Condon,who added his unit would also interview former New Zealand captainMartin Crowe by the end of this month and Brian Lara of West Indiesearly next month.Condon was all praise for the CBI and described the agency as a “veryprofessional outfit” for which he had a “lot of admiration”.A CBI team will be visiting London this week in connection withinvestigations into alleged bungling in the allotment of TV telecastrights case for the 1998 ICC Knock-out tournament in Dhaka and Condonsaid the ACU will offer whatever support it can to the team. “We workvery closely with the CBI,” he said.
