Kundra admits betting
AFP, NEW DELHI
Rajasthan Royals owners Raj Kundra (L) and his Bollywood heroine wife Shilpa Shetty are seen during the team’s 2012 IPL jersey unveiling ceremony. PHOTO: AFP FILE
A co-owner of an Indian Premier League (IPL) team on Thursday became the latest person embroiled in a growing spot-fixing and betting scandal after he admitted illegal gambling, police said.
Raj Kundra, co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals franchise and husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has been ordered to hand over his passport to police probing illegal betting and alleged corrupt links between players and organised crime syndicates.
“He [Kundra] has been called [for questioning] because we came to know through interrogation that he himself used to bet and he has admitted he put money on his own team,” Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar told reporters.
“We also found he lost large sums of money through betting.”
So far, three players from the Rajasthan Royals and numerous bookmakers are among those arrested over allegations of spot-fixing and betting during the recently completed edition of the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament.
Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two of his teammates have been accused of deliberately bowling badly in specific IPL matches in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars after striking deals with bookies.
A court this week denied them bail after police said they now had evidence, including telephone intercepts, linking international organised crime syndicates to the scandal.
The betting and fixing scandal has shaken confidence in the game and enraged fans in this cricket-mad nation.
Kumar said the probe into the scandal was being expanded, threatening more damage to the top of the IPL competition which features domestic and international players.
“Right now we cannot say which direction the investigation will go, or what else will surface in the future,” Kumar said.
Spot-fixing, in which a specific part of the match but not the outcome is fixed, is illegal. Betting on the IPL is also illegal under India’s laws which ban gambling on all sports except horse-racing.
Raj Kundra, co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals franchise and husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has been ordered to hand over his passport to police probing illegal betting and alleged corrupt links between players and organised crime syndicates.
“He [Kundra] has been called [for questioning] because we came to know through interrogation that he himself used to bet and he has admitted he put money on his own team,” Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar told reporters.
“We also found he lost large sums of money through betting.”
So far, three players from the Rajasthan Royals and numerous bookmakers are among those arrested over allegations of spot-fixing and betting during the recently completed edition of the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament.
Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two of his teammates have been accused of deliberately bowling badly in specific IPL matches in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars after striking deals with bookies.
A court this week denied them bail after police said they now had evidence, including telephone intercepts, linking international organised crime syndicates to the scandal.
The betting and fixing scandal has shaken confidence in the game and enraged fans in this cricket-mad nation.
Kumar said the probe into the scandal was being expanded, threatening more damage to the top of the IPL competition which features domestic and international players.
“Right now we cannot say which direction the investigation will go, or what else will surface in the future,” Kumar said.
Spot-fixing, in which a specific part of the match but not the outcome is fixed, is illegal. Betting on the IPL is also illegal under India’s laws which ban gambling on all sports except horse-racing.
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