http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Chief refuses to intervene in CSA’s financial scam – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719, the Chief Executive of International Cricket Council (ICC), has refused point blank to meddle into the financial scam of Cricket South Africa, saying that the row is an internal matter of the board and the global cricket governing body will
not like to get involved in it.
The CSA high-ups have been wrangling with each other since long on the issue of the alleged irregularities in the management of the bonuses and funds paid by the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) for holding the Indian Premier League (IPL) season-2
in South Africa.
The demand for dragging the ICC into the hot waters of the dispute has been raised by some cricketing circles of the country following the report of the Audit Committee, that was unearthed last Saturday.
Talking to the media today, Lorgat said, “Every (ICC) member is autonomous with a board that is primarily responsible for the governance and administration of the game in that country.”
He further told, “We only get involved if we are asked to, or unless that particular member is doing nothing about something that is patently, visibly wrong to everybody."
The probe was initiated some weeks ago on the hard-pressed demand by the CSA president Mtutuzeli Nyoka and some other cricketing circles, which claimed that the board's Chief Executive, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mongezi-Gerald-Majola-c77649, along with some of his officials, had allegedly embezzled
the millions that were paid to CSA by the BCCI as a remuneration for holding the IPL-2009 in South Africa.
The IPL organisers held the second league edition in South Africa, following the terrorist attacks of 26/11.
The issue of embezzlement surfaced in February 2009, when Nyoka revealed that the board, under the command of Majola, had misused the funds without bringing the matter to his notice.
Majola, in order to avert further complications dismissed the president when he was out of the country.
However, Nyoka challenged his dismissal in court, which restored his previous position. The court ordered the board to reinstate Nyoka and make all the details available to him.
Now, the cricketing fraternity of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 is vying for the peaceful solution of the spat that has rendered the cricket management dysfunctional.
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