New Delhi: Just after a day when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches in and around Delhi in connection with its hawala probe against some betting syndicates allegedly related to IPL T-20 cricket matches, Lalit Modi on Monday took to social micro-blogging site, Twitter to criticise the Board of Control For Cricket in India (BCCI) in regard to illegal betting quantum.
Modi stated on Monday that the likes of BCCI, IPL, Anurag Thakur and India Cements are trying to deceive the public in matters related to betting.
1/3 tweets Again these jokers in @BCCI @ICC @IPL #indiacements @ianuragthakur trying 2 hoodwink us all in regard to #illegal betting quantum
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) May 11, 2015
He also added that the betting sums are 9000-10,000 crores per game.
2/3 tweet - I have been saying for years - wake up media fellows it's more like 9000- 10,000 crores per game. Why do u think #monster is ..
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) May 11, 2015
With reference to the Justice Mudgal Commitee report submitted to the SC, Modi said that if they were to reveal the names of players involved, four of them are from CSK.
So here is my BREAKING STORY - IF THE #HONORABLE #SUPREME #COURT WAS TO REVEAL THE NAMES OF PLAYERS INVOLVED IN FIXING - at least 4 are CSK
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) May 11, 2015
Modi then added that everybody forgets about the most important issue when an IPL season starts.
everyone just gets into frenzy as season starts. And forgets the most important issue - #FIXING - there is a #report out there. Why #stop it
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) May 11, 2015
Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday conducted searches in and around Delhi in connection with its hawala probe against some betting syndicates related allegedly to IPL T-20 cricket matches.
Sources said that about four locations in Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon were covered during the searches which are being conducted by the Ahmedabad office of the agency in coordination with their local counterparts here. "The searches are being conducted on some suspects who acted as bookies during the recent Indian Premier League matches held in the county.
"The probe is being handled by the ED Ahmedabad office, which is investigating the case for hawala and money laundering charges," sources said. The Ahmedabad office of ED had on March 19 claimed to have busted a racket and arrested some bookies from a farmhouse on the outskirts of Vadodara in Gujarat. Later, the agency arrested 13 others in connection with the alleged betting racket. On March 26, the same office registered a money laundering case against two prime suspects and a few others in an alleged IPL betting racket worth Rs 4,000 crore.
The accused have been charged by ED under Sections 418 (cheating), 419 (punishment for cheating), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 471 (using forged document as genuine) along with Section 120(b) (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code. Sources said that a "good cache" of mobile phones, documents and computer peripherals have been seized during today's operation. Locations in Delhi's Karol Bagh, Shastri Nagar and Gurgaon are being searched, they added.
(With Agency inputs)
