International Cricket Council publishes spot-fixing ruling
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has published an edited version of the final determination of the anti-corruption tribunal that handed out its verdict on February 5th, 2011 after the spot-fixing hearing in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986. The verdict was published on ICC’s official website.
The ruling will not be available to internet users in England and Wales because of Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) decision to level criminal charges on the banned trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif. The three players were found guilty of taking bribes from a bookmaker named http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed to bowl deliberate no-balls during a Test match against England in August last year.
According to reports, the verdict will be available on the website only for a period of one week.
It is reported that in order to make the ruling of ICC’s anti-corruption tribunal more transparent it was decided by the members of cricket’s governing body to make the extended version of the ruling available to the masses all over the world.
This step was taken by the ICC in a bid to show that the verdict was free from any biases, and the decision to ban the players was totally made on merit and on the basis of the evidence available against the players.
Earlier, speaking on the matter, the ICC chief executive http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719 said, “It is the ICC's intention to be as transparent an organisation as is feasible and to publish all its reports and findings for the benefit of stakeholders."
He reiterated that it was in the interest to publish the verdict, “Publishing the full written determination of the tribunal is clearly in the best interest of cricket."
The six-day hearing took place behind closed doors, where the members of press were not allowed to enter the arena. However, it was necessary to make sure that the verdict was not considered to be a prejudice judgement for which it was necessary to make the ruling available to the public.
ICC has made it clear that an act to access or distribute the determination from within England and Wales would be considered unlawful and legal action would be taken against individuals responsible.
The three players will receive an unedited version of this determination after which some of them may decide to challenge the decision by the tribunal in an international court. Pacer Mohammad Amir has already announced that he would be challenging the verdict after consultation with his lawyer.
According to the verdict, Butt has been banned for ten years, Asif for seven and Amir for a period of five years. During this time the players would not be allowed to take part in any cricket related activity in or outside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
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