Bollywood actress questioned over match-fixing allegations – Cricket News Update
Alan Peacock, the International Cricket Council’s corruption unit investigator and security officer, was in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 to question Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta with regard to her role in the match-fixing allegations as alleged by a British newspaper. The meeting
took place in a suburban hotel of the city on Monday and after the meeting the actress said that she had been ‘given a clean chit by the ICC’ over her non-involvement in any kind of match-fixing activity.
Her name first appeared in March this year, when a London daily newspaper Sunday Times carried out a sting operation on a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 based bookie. The operation was done to look into the match-fixing allegations during the ICC World Cup, held simultaneously in
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
The Sunday Times' report with a blurred image and no names, implicated Mehta's involvement as an accomplice hired by Indian bookmakers to be used in luring the players into both match-fixing and spot-fixing.
Mehta said, "I was quizzed for two and half hours today. He was (Allan Peacock) the only official representing the ICC. There was a list of questionnaires. He asked me who I know in cricketing world both India and international players. I took names but
I won't reveal it to the media."
Mehta is a small-time Bollywood actress with just one movie to her credit. The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 has so far refused to comment on the development and maintains that it usually doesn’t comment on matters related to anti-corruption unit. However, ICC sources have termed
her comments as hogwash and maintained that the air is not as clear as she said.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mehta-c75574 defended her cricketing friends and said that she told the ICC official about her non-involvement in match-fixing and the players she befriended with also had no involvement in this matter.
"I have complete faith in ICC investigating unit. They gave me a clean chit today. I told them the cricketers I took the names are not involved in fixing at all. They are innocent. I proved myself right. I have cleared the air," she concluded.
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