India has already established significantly more than its share that is fair of when it comes to match fixing and other gambling scandals, especially in the national pastime of cricket. So that the last thing that many cricket fans wanted to hear about was yet another problem with betting within the Indian Premier League but that’s exactly what was verified this week, as being a team formal, players and umpires have all been charged in the latest cricket gambling scandal.

Cricket Board of Control President’s Son in Law Involved

Possibly the biggest name involved in the allegations is Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of the Board of Control for Cricket in Asia (BCCI) president Narayanaswami Srinivasan (say that three times fast). Gurunath is additionally a former senior official with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) associated with IPL, and was accused of passing on information that compromised his team in this year’s competition. He was officially charged by Mumbai police with cheating, forgery and conspiracy that is criminal.

While Gurunath wasn’t faced with actually repairing matches which seemed likely at first following his arrest in might the rest of the charges were still serious sufficient to fundamentally damage the integrity of matches involving CSK.

‘ Investigators have evidence to prove that Mr. Meiyappan has passed on crucial information that compromises the united team strategy, information about team composition, information about injury updates, details about who goes to bat where,’ police stated in the charge sheet.

Gurunath was said to have passed away with this given information to another of the arrested and charged in connection to the scandal, who in turn provided that information to three bookies who placed wagers making use of that information.

Betting Against His Or Her Own Team

Gurunath was also revealed to have bet on several of his team’s matches, including gambling against his team that is own on least one occasion. Transcripts of phone conversations also established the link between Gurunath and actor Vindoo Dara Singh, who has been charged with illegal gambling himself.

Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf has also been named as a ‘wanted accused’ for his role in the gambling case. He’d umpired within the IPL season, but left India in May before police could question him about alleged gift suggestions he had received that could link towards the research. Following allegations, the ICC removed Rauf from the list of officials that would work in the Champions Trophy, while Rauf himself denied all allegations of corruption.

In addition to Rauf, 15 so-called Pakistani bookies are wanted associated with the case.

Meanwhile, at the very least one bookie based in Mumbai has given more information that is startling authorities. Chandresh Shivlal Patel gave a statement to Mumbai police saying that four players in the Hyderabad Sunrisers were involved with a match-fixing scandal throughout the team’s first year into the IPL. The supposed fix occurred in A april 17 match between the sunrisers and the pune warriors. According to the charge sheet, the four players and the bookies agreed on a number that is certain of to be scored in certain overs. The bookies also bet on Hyderabad to lose the game outright, though that did perhaps not take place, as the Sunrisers fundamentally won the match.

The information in regards to the details of the charges against officials and bookies comes from the 11,500-page charge sheet that was filed this week by the Mumbai authorities. Most types of gambling are illegal in India, though it’s known that underground illegal betting on cricket is quite common through the country.