Butt files a detailed response to spot fixing-allegations
Former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 captain Salman Butt has filed a “comprehensive and hard-hitting response” to allegations of spot-fixing following an International Cricket Council (ICC) hearing, said his lawyer on Tuesday.
Butt along with fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir was suspended by the ICC due to spot fixing allegations during the fourth Test against England at Lord’s. Butt’s lawyer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719 for violating
a confidentiality agreement.
"Butt on 13 December has filed a detailed, comprehensive and hard-hitting 40-page response to each and every allegation brought by the ICC with regard to spot-fixing allegations leveled against him," Saeed said in a statement.
Saeed further added, "The ICC itself is violating the agreement, as is evident from the recent comments of Lorgat,"
The lawyer was referring to remarks made by ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat while he was speaking to the BBC. Lorgat said, “(I) would be disappointed if the tribunal finds Pakistani players accused of spot-fixing not guilty."
Butt, Asif and Aamir will appear before an ICC anti-corruption unit from 6-11 January in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986.
Khalid Ranhja was handling Butt’s case earlier, but after the failure of his appeal against suspension in October, he was replaced by Shahid Saeed. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aftab-Gul-c42202, who decided to quit last month, has also joined Saeed in Butt’s legal team.
On Monday Butt again clarified to reporters that the thousands of pounds discovered at his London hotel room by police, following an investigation by British tabloid News of the World, came from daily tour allowances, bat sponsorship and opening an ice-cream
parlour.
Butt explained that since he was captaining the team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had given him some extra allowance for the tour, which amounted to 4,500 pounds. He said that the rest of the money was an advance payment from his bat sponsor, Capital
Cricket which was displayed on the back of his bat.
Butt said that 2,500 pounds of the money discovered were given to him for the inauguration of an ice cream parlour in South London.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard raided the Pakistan team hotel and seized money, after reports in the News of the World claimed several visiting players took money from a bookmaker to bowl no-balls during the Lord's Test.
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