ICC Anti-Corruption Unit’s coordinator of investigations, Steve Richardson has arrived in Sri Lanka to investigate the allegations of corruption in cricket in the Island.
The world governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council have also given a two-week concessionary period to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to report any match-fixing approaches, betting scandals, corruption matters etc. More so, anyone with information regarding corruption in Sri Lanka Cricket can submit those to Richardson’s temporary office during the period.
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Sports Minister, Hon. Harin Fernando urged all SLC contracted players, employees, coaches and stakeholders to come clean in the coming two weeks if they had been approached, knew of or were involved in any form of corruption.
“This game, we all love, belongs to the cricketers who sweat it out day in day out, not to the officials at the board. They have named Sri Lanka as the most corrupt country playing cricket in the world, I felt really sad when ICC revealed those corruptions details. We need to clean this mess and reclaim our lost glory.” Minister Fernando said on Wednesday at the Sports Ministry Auditorium. “The new anti-corruption laws in Sri Lanka will be presented to the Parliament in March. Then once it’s passed, we can start punishing the corrupt individuals with a five-year jail sentence. “
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