LAHORE – Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi has movedagainst the Chairman PCB for baseless corruption allegations against him.
Sethi has sent a legal notice to incumbent chief Ehsan Mani overpublishing incorrect details of his expenses incurred during his tenure.
The accusations are “incorrect, misleading, grossly exaggerated anddeliberately calculated to hurt Mr Sethi’s reputation and to lower theesteem in which he is held by the general public,” said the notice, addingthat the PCB’s move is “clearly intended solely to malign Mr Sethi,presumably at the behest of Mr Imran Khan”
On October 27, the cricket board published details of the expenses, statingthat the former PCB chief and chairman of executive committee spent overRs71 million during his term.
Calling the expenses details as “deliberately misleading and defamatory”,the legal notice said the PCB shared “incorrect figures, withholdsinformation and deliberately avoids noting that all payments in questionwere authorised by the PCB’s Governing Board under the relevant rules”.