IPL Scam: Lalit Modi accused of money laundering, match fixing and running a betting network
The Income Tax department has substantial evidence to prove that Lalit Modi is involved in money laundering, match fixing and abetting or running a betting network across the world according to various news reports in the media. A TV report says that a Delhi socialite Sameer runs a betting network on behalf of Lalit Modi who provides him with inside information on the status of the IPL matches. Whether all this evidence will stand up to the scrutiny of the courts is an altogether different story.
Meanwhile Lalit Modi has vehemently denied all these allegations. He said there was absolutely no betting in IPL matches. He also threatened to take any legal action against these reports. The source of these reports is a confidential dossier prepared by the Income Tax department about six months ago and now corroborated after additional information was obtained from the raids carried out on Lalit Modi’s offices including the BCCI and IPL head quarters.
Here are some links to articles and reports:
http://cricket.zeenews.com/fullstory.aspx?nid=29160
http://videos.oneindia.in/watch/24663/lalit-modi-involved-ipl-betting.html
IPL Gate: Poorrna Patel, Praful Patel accessed insider information
By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com / iplgate.wordpress.com
NCP politician and aviation minister Praful Patel’s daughter in charge of hospitality at the IPL was sent a confidential email from Lalit Modi’s office which was later on passed on to Shashi Tharoor. According to TV reports, Poorna Patel who was in charge of hospitality had no business to posses or receive that email. While Praful Patel has vehemently denied that the email was confidential and claims that the email was routine and ‘in public domain’, it is very obvious, say reports that the email was sent to apparently mislead Tharoor and his coterie.
Poorna Patel was as her father claimed a very junior employee at the IPL and was working for pocket money. The question is why was a junior employee was sent a valuation document received directly from the IPL Commissioner’s office. IPL CEO Sundar Raman is alleged to have sent the email on instructions from Lalit Modi to Praful Patel’s daughter Poorna Patel. He later in the day asserted that he had no idea why Poorna Patel forwarded that email to her father’s office which in turn was forwarded to Shashi Tharoor.
What the IPL CEO forgot to answer was why in the first place did he as CEO send a financial document to a junior employee in the hospitality department.
IPL Gate: Lalit Modi meets Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, asks for support
By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com / iplgate.wordpress.com
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi met Reliance Industries chairman and Mumbai Indians owner Mukesh Ambani today (22 April, 2010) and according to TV news reports sought his support and help. Mukesh Ambani is known to be close to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress politicians, including the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The meeting took place in the backdrop of the first IPL-3 semi-final, against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, at the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. The Mumbai Indians won by 35 runs and will meet the winner of Thursday’s semi-final between the Deccan Chargers and the Chennai Super Kings in the final on Sunday.
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