DUBAI – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has appealed forinformation to find the one remaining suspected match-fixer from a recentdocumentary, as part of an extensive investigation by its Anti-CorruptionUnit.
The alleged fixer, known as Aneel Munawar, remains unidentified. Hefeatured in Al Jazeera’s documentary ‘Cricket’s Match-Fixers’ which airedearlier this year and shook the cricket world with scandalising revelations.
The programme makers have indicated that this man will now be central to asecond documentary.
Alex Marshall, General Manager ICC ACU, said in a press release. “We haveidentified every other person in the original documentary and have spokento a number of them in connection with match fixing, including those whoare not deemed to be participants under our Anti-Corruption Code.
“However the true identity of Aneel Munawar remains a mystery. He plays asignificant role in the programme, yet enquiries with law enforcement andimmigration sources have not identified or located him.
“As such we are appealing to the public or anyone from within the cricketfamily to contact us with any information that will lead us to identify andlocate him. Police investigations often use such an appeal to locate peopleof interest and we are exercising the same approach.”
Marshall added: “The absence of any cooperation from the broadcaster hasslowed the investigation, but to date we have made good progress inidentifying people of significant interest including people already ofinterest to the ACU. We have been able to discount a number of claims madein the programme and continue to pursue other aspects. We will provide afull update at the conclusion of the investigation.linklink
“We are aware that there is a second documentary in the offing, this timebased on historical recordings between a fixer, suspected to be Munawar andbookies in India. As with the first programme, we will investigate anyclaims made in a full and thorough manner and we take any allegations ofcorruption, historical or contemporary, extremely seriously. Based on whatwe already know, we have engaged the services of an independent bettinganalysis company to examine the claims made about particular matches.
“As with the first programme we have, and will continue to ask for thecooperation of the broadcaster. Access to the raw, unedited footage enablesus to build a complete picture around the claims in the documentary andensure our investigation is as fair and thorough as possible.”