Senior Sri Lankan player under investigation over betting scandal

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Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Haroon Lorgat (L), and ICC Anti Corruption and Security Unit chairman, Ronnie Flanagan host a press conference at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on September 3, 2010. AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL. September 04, 2010 (islandcricket.lk): Members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have alerted skipper Kumar Sangakkara to the unusual late night activities of a senior Sri Lankan cricketer with a man thought to be an illegal bookmaker, The Guardian reported on it's website.
"The player has since been investigated by Sri Lankan police, although no charges have been laid; officials from the ICC's anti-corruption unit are said to be dismayed at the lack of progress," the British newspaper reported.
When alerted by fellow team mates, skipper Kumar Sangakkara is said to have notified the ICC's anti-corruption unit. However, the governing body of cricket on the island - Sri Lanka Cricket - has kept the entire matter away from the public spotlight by concealing the entire police investigation surrounding the player.
The player concerned has been under the ICC's scanner since the World Twenty20 in 2009, according to The Guardian.
Recently, The News of the World - a British tabloid - exposed a betting scandal involving several Pakistani players which has rocked the entire cricketing fraternity.


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Just saw it on DDSPORT,and seached internet and saw this,Who might be the person?

 

[lkdood]

Just saw it on DDSPORT,and seached internet and saw this,Who might be the person?

no idea

The International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit has been monitoring the activities of a leading Sri Lanka player since the World Twenty20 in England last year after team-mates became increasingly unsettled by his late-night fraternising with a man they believed to be an illegal bookmaker. They passed on their concerns to the captain, Kumar Sangakkara, who followed ICC protocol by contacting the anti-corruption unit.


The player has since been investigated by Sri Lankan police, although no charges have been laid; officials from the ICC's anti-corruption unit are said to be dismayed at the lack of progress. Haroon Lorgat, the ICC's chief executive, has admitted to a general sense of frustration, saying: "The [anti-corruption unit's] working is not that of a policing agency or a newspaper. They have no power to arrest or seize, or carry out a sting operation."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/sep/05/sri-lanka-player-icc-spotlight