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 Scam: Does Lalit Modi know about the IPL fake tickets, black marketing?
According to certain media reports, Lalit Modi and some of his cronies or others within the IPL core group may have inside knowledge about the black marketing of the IPL finals tickets. Tickets have also been duplicated, forged and faked on a large scale and fake tickets are being sold all over.
Are insiders within the IPL core team aware of these fake, forged and duplicated tickets. Why hasn’t the IPL management filed any police complaint against the forging of these tickets. Is it meant to hoodwink the tax man. Are some members printing the fake tickets themselves in collusion with some others? Only a detailed Crime Branch probe may reveal the truth. Or will it??
A report by Sanjay Jog in Business Standard says and we reproduce the entire report:
Troubles seem to be hitting the Indian Premier League (IPL) from all sides. Even as the investigating agencies look into the murky financial dealings in IPL, black marketers and touts are having a field day, selling tickets for the finals for Rs 3,000-Rs 2 lakh.
The black marketers have even started selling fake tickets in hotels, at railway stations and colonies near the stadium. The tickets for the finals, to be held on April 25 at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, are officially priced at Rs 500, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000.
Sources told Business Standard the black market was flourishing: “There has been a mad rush. A ticket of Rs 500 is now being sold at Rs 3,000-7,000. Similarly, a Rs 5,000 ticket is going for Rs 45,000-70,000 and Rs 10,000 tickets are being sold for as much as Rs 80,000-2 lakh.”
Even the complimentary tickets are being sold at as much as Rs 60,000-1.50 lakh. Police sources admitted they had received complaints about black marketing of tickets. However, no official complaint had so far been lodged.
Police sources also admitted, given that the priority was to ensure there was no untoward incident in the finals, they had not been able to pay much attention to the complaints. “The police is currently concentrating on the law-and-order situation,” admitted a source.
The situation has become so difficult that even politicians are unable to get tickets. A Congress legislator, who was willing to pay up to Rs 10 lakh for a few tickets, was not been able to get any. The legislator, on condition of anonymity, said: “The state government should step in to stop this illegal sale. Ideally, the sale of tickets would have been divided into online and over the counter in a 50:50 ratio. Genuine cricket lovers are simply barred from enjoying the game at the stadium.”
An Opposition legislator, who landed up with a fake ticket for the semi-finals between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, said: “I paid Rs 20,000 for a Rs 10,000 ticket. But, when I reached the stadium, I was told the ticket was fake. I could not do much, as it would have only landed me in trouble.”
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.
IPLgate: IPL officials destroying data on laptops, servers.
By Neelakshi Singh – Futuristic Media Network
IPL officials, secretaries, managers and others are on “Operation Clean-up”, say sources. But they are not cleaning the cricket body of the scamsters and wheeler-dealers. Instead, they are destroying crucial evidence, lest it should fall into the hands of the authorities.
According to Flynn Remedios, author of IPLgate – the mother of all cricket scams (iplgate.wordpress.com and ghotala.wordpress.com), secretaries, managers and officials have begun deleting emails and clearing the trash cans on their laptops, desktops and even computers at home. IT (Information Technology) engineers have been told to clear the cache and trash on servers, lest it lands in the hands of the government, says Flynn Remedios. This follows the leaking of crucial emails to the media including an email sent from NCP politician, bigwig and industrialist Praful Patel’s secretary to former MOS Shashi Tharoor.
The email sent by Praful Patel’s secretary Champa Bharatwaj is a spread sheet document according to TV reports. Praful Patel obtained the mail via his daughter who works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office. Apparently Patel asked Modi to forward him the email which was then forwarded by his secretary to Shashi Tharoor. Vijay Mallaya relative also works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office, reports have claimed.
Meanwhile IPL governing council member Mansur Ali Khan “Tiger” Patudi has demanded that that Lalit Modi must step down. This follows a news report by CNN IBN that Lalit Modi may move the Bombay High Court praying for a stay on the meeting called by the BCCI on the 26th April 2010.
The scandal broke loose when Lalit Modi tweeted on Twitter releasing the shareholding pattern of the Kochi franchisee in which Shashi Tharoor’s special lady friend Sunanda Pushkar had a stake of Rs 70 crore. Praful Patel today confirmed that he had helped Shashi Tharoor with the valuation of the Kochi cricket team. But an NCP spokesperson said that Patel did not wrong and the documents were all in public domain.
The question remains that if the documents were in public domain, why did a MOS like Shashi Tharoor require Praful Patel to send it to him. He could have asked Lalit Modi for the documents directly. The documents were sent to Tharoor two days prior to the Kochi bid.
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