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May 16, 2000
New Delhi, May 15 - Former Board of Control for Cricket in India President IS Bindra this evening spent over an hour with officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation at the organisation's headquarters at the CGO Complex here. During that time he also handed over the 360 pages of documents he has put together on the match fixing, bribery and betting issue that has racked Indian and world cricket over the last month and a half. Bindra, who yesterday pulled back from having named 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev and shifted the onus on to Manoj Prabhakar, later refused to comment on the issue. Accompanying Bindra today was Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Secretary MP Pandove, who was also present when Prabhakar disclosed Kapil's name at the Chandigarh meeting. The documentation handed over to the CBI relate broadly to three areas, Bindra said. They included the alleged shady deals being struck with relation to television rights to international tournaments, the presence of middlemen and event promoters at Board-related events and the "unreasonable amounts of money being made by cricketers and the BCCI from offshore matches". Sharjah, Toronto, Dhaka and Singapore were the centers Bindra singled out as being the venues where money power played the biggest role. He however, admitted responsibility as being the one who had signed the deal over the Sahara Cup in Toronto that pits India against Pakistan over a five-year period ending in 2001. Bindra reportedly told the CBI that it was at these centers that middlemen played a major role in deciding matches and added that cricketers were less than serious during such games, which in turn, led to suspicions of foul play. A bulk of the papers he handed over however related to TV related rights and associated deals. The allotment of these rights was a large grey area that needed close scrutiny, Bindra is reported to have told the CBI. The PCA President's meeting with the nation's premier investigative agency assumes significance in the light of the BCCI's Working Committee and Annual General meetings scheduled here on May 19 and 20. Meanwhile, the CBI will hold its second meeting with Manoj Prabhakar in the next four days. Prabhakar sets the wheels of action on match fixing in motion three years ago when he alleged that he had been approached by a senior colleague to play badly in a 1994 Singer Cup match in Sri Lanka. Bindra quoted Prabhakar on a worldwide CNN programme as saying that the player concerned was Kapil Dev, now the Indian team's coach. Prabhakar first met the CBI at a secret South Delhi location two weeks ago.
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