da dobrowin： A two-member team of ICC’s anti-corruption unit has left for New Delhito track down bookmaker Mukesh Gupta and obtain a formal testimonyfrom him
21-Jun-2001A two-member team of ICC’s anti-corruption unit has left for New Delhito track down bookmaker Mukesh Gupta and obtain a formal testimonyfrom him. The team comprises Geff Rees and Alan Hawkins and is”expected to be in India for several days”, a spokesman of ICC toldPTI in London on Thursday.Gupta has been served with an ultimatum to substantiate charges thathe offered or paid nine non-Indian players money for information byJuly 1.The deposition of Gupta, a key witness in the CBI probe on betting andmatch fixing in cricket, is crucial for substantiation of chargesagainst international cricketers including England’s stand-in skipperAlec Stewart and West Indies star batsman Brian Lara.The ACU chief Sir Paul Condon had stated at a meeting of the game’sgoverning body in London on Monday that Gupta had been given adeadline till July 1 to become an approver in the worst ever scandalto have rocked the sport.If Gupta failed to cooperate, the charges that he paid money toStewart, Lara and others for match related information, might bedropped, Condon had hinted.