More cricket match-fixing: Thami caught out

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The ex-Lions captain allegedly met with bookies – and Bodi’s lawyers are believed to have a copy of a recording between them and the player, which they are using as leverage.

Investigators studying the Gulam Bodi cricket match-fixing case are in possession of a recording allegedly detailing a meeting between former Highveld Lions captain Thami Tsolekile and Indian bookies, three informed sources have confirmed to Saturday Citizen.

The recording, in which Tsolekile allegedly discusses other players who are in on the scam, was apparently sent to one of the players who was approached by Bodi, possibly as a warning for them to keep quiet.

It was, instead, handed in to the anti-corruption and security unit at Cricket SA (CSA).

Bodi’s lawyers are also believed to have a copy of the recording and are looking at using it as leverage to prevent their client from being criminally prosecuted or to even get his sentence reduced. Bodi was banned from the game for 20 years in January.

Investigators are reportedly also homing in on a meeting Tsolekile had with the alleged bookies at a Rivonia strip club, with telephone records apparently showing he was there until 4am one morning in September.

The recording was apparently made of a subsequent meeting.

The match-fixing investigation has seen Tsolekile, who captained the Highveld Lions in the RamSlam T20 Challenge at the end of 2015 – but has not played for them since – go underground.
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More here: http://www.citizen.co.za/1104555/thami-caught-out/
 
A bit further on in the article:

The former test wicketkeeper/batsman has not been seen at the Wanderers all year and team-mate Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who has previously admitted to being under investigation but denied having taken money to underperform, has also not been seen there since the end of the T20 competition, in which the Lions won just four of their 10 matches to finish second-last.
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Seems like it's going to start unravelling for the players. Nice lot they turned out to be. Not!
 
The_Librarian said:
Hansiegate Redux?
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This one feels like it involved more who have followed through on corrupt deeds than was the case with Hansie. Having been through the pain of the Cronje's debacle, this lot deserve to fall hard.
 
McT said:
This one feels like it involved more who have followed through on corrupt deeds than was the case with Hansie. Having been through the pain of the Cronje's debacle, this lot deserve to fall hard.
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There were no criminal charges involved in the Hansie gate one so I seriously doubt we heard the whole truth.
 
stefan9 said:
There were no criminal charges involved in the Hansie gate one so I seriously doubt we heard the whole truth.
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So the question is whether the lads of the current scandal will face criminal charges or will they too be afforded leniency.
 
Bond said:
The leniency bit.
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Aaah... inhouse CSA procedures...
Probably not. Since the Hansie affair and other bookmaking scandals, the contracts signed by these players are airtight. Players are now taught these things so they cannot plead ignorance or innocence. One strike and you are out. No referrals, no TV umpires... GONE.
 
MickeyD said:
Aaah... inhouse CSA procedures...
Probably not. Since the Hansie affair and other bookmaking scandals, the contracts signed by these players are airtight. Players are now taught these things so they cannot plead ignorance or innocence. One strike and you are out. No referrals, no TV umpires... GONE.
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As it should be. Absurd to think a professional sportsman could misunderstand matchfixing.
 
I get a feeling that the seriousness of the charges being levelled against the players is being diluted by CSA since some of the guilty perps are considered "transformation players"

On the one hand you have an international ban due to non transformation while the very players being transformed are looking for a quick buck by agreeing to fix matches.

Its a tough one.
 
WaxLyrical said:
I get a feeling that the seriousness of the charges being levelled against the players is being diluted by CSA since some of the guilty perps are considered "transformation players"

On the one hand you have an international ban due to non transformation while the very players being transformed are looking for a quick buck by agreeing to fix matches.

Its a tough one.
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Rubbish, remember Henry Williams and Gibbs were banned for their role in the Hansie match fixing?
 
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