‘Bookie, 4 Sunrisers fixed game’
A Mumbai-based bookie fixed an IPL match for `6 crore after striking deals with four players of Sunrisers Hyderabad, according to a statement by this bookie that has been included by the Mumbai police crime branch in its chargesheet filed on Saturday.
This bookie had been arrested by the Delhi police special cell from a Mumbai hotel. The bookie allegedly met the four players in Pune and fixed the deal with the help of other bookies. The brother of one of the players was a mediator in the deal, the bookie claims.
While probing the IPL betting scandal, the crime branch property cell learnt that Chandresh Shivlal Patel, 34, was one of the bookies in contact with some arrested and wanted accused. The police then recorded his statement on June 17. Patel, a sharebroker from Four Bungalows in Andheri (West), in his statement to the police, has claimed that in March 2013 his Ahmedabad-based friend Pravin Thakkar, alias Pintu, introduced him to one Jitu Jain, who is in the finance business. Pintu also introduced Patel to his friend Mannan, who was identified as a friend of cricketer Amit Singh.
Patel’s friend Vinni from Mumbai introduced Patel to his friends Yusuf and Amir.
“In the last week of March, Yusuf gave me Amir’s number and asked me to call Amir, who wanted to talk about IPL matches. When I called Amir, he told me to come to Hyderabad ‘to set’ an IPL match there. I informed Jitu about this and he asked me to take along Pintu to Hyderabad for the deal. I then went to Hyderabad with Pintu and Yusuf. Amir accommodated us in a hotel room,” Patel alleged in his statement which is included in the chargesheet.
Patel’s statement adds, “Amir told us that it would take `5 crore to fix an IPL match in Hyderabad and `1 crore will be mine (commission), so the total cost would come to `6 crore. Pintu informed Jitu about the offer, who in turn told us to finalise the deal if they could arrange a meeting with the players. Amir told us that he would arrange a meeting with the players on April 16 in Pune, but asked for an advance of `50 lakh.”
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