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Upon his return home after being released from Britain, the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-c88163 Butt, took to proving his innocence and disclosed forensic telephone records to implicate pacer Mohammad Amir and bookie Mazhar Majeed.
Salman was convicted by the Southwark Crown Court for conspiracy to accept corrupt payments and conspiracy to cheat. He was sentenced for 30 months in prison but was later released after serving 7 months, and landed in Pakistan on June, 22nd.
“Here is the forensic evidence of messages and calls exchanged between Mazhar Majeed and Mohammad Amir… It has the details of 9,000 calls and text messages exchanged in 14 days. Not a single call came to me from Mazhar Majeed, while Mohammad Amir was called four times in a day.”
“I have apologised even at the airport on my return, but on my failure to report. Mazhar Majeed did send me offers and text messages, but I did not reply to any of them,” Butt maintained.
Claiming to have new evidence that took 10 months to surface, Butt says that he will not leave any stone unturned to clear himself from the shameful charge, later announcing that he will appeal against the five year ban in the Swiss court after gaining possession of forensic evidence.
Blaming the young fast bowler, Mohammad Amir, Butt claimed that the forensic evidence points towards Amir and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993 was also convicted along with Amir, as they were sentenced to jail time and bans from International cricket; however, Amir being a juvenile, was shown some leniency.
Amir, after being released from prison stated that the captain and team manager manipulated him into spot fixing, blaming Butt of taking advantage of their friendship.
Butt however, has a completely different take on the story, and claims that Mazhar contacted him a number of times for spot fixing while he ignored all offers, abiding to the code of conduct.
On his return to Pakistan, the convicted captain apologised to the whole nation and was happy to see a warm welcome at the Lahore airport. He conceived that his fans wanted to forgive him and showed affection for their former skipper.
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