ISLAMABAD – Britain Crown Court sentenced Pakistani cricketer forconspiring to offer bribes to players in PSL and BPL matches.
The Manchester Crown Court on Friday sentenced Pakistani cricketer NasirJamshed and two accomplices for conspiring to offer bribes to players inPakistan Super League (PSL) and Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) matches.
Jamshed, along with accomplices Yousef Anwar and Mohammed Ijaz, wasarrested as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) probe into allegedspot-fixing.
An undercover police officer had infiltrated the network by posing as amember of a betting syndicate.
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His work led to an attempted fix in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)towards the end of 2016, as well as an actual fix in the Pakistan SuperLeague (PSL) in February 2017.
In both cases, an opening batsman in the Twenty20 tournaments had agreed tonot score runs from the first two balls of an over in return for payment.
