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Richard Sydenham at Southwark Crown Court
October 10, 2011
A court heard on Monday a recording of how the alleged Pakistan spot-fixing controversy was spawned - from an initial conversation about setting up a Twenty20 event to a murkier debate about fixing and how Pakistan players made significant amounts of money from the corrupt practice.
The latest development unravelled as former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif sat in the dock at Southwark Crown Court, on the fourth day of their trial as they defend themselves against charges of bowling pre-determined no-balls in the Lord's Test against England last year. They deny the charges.
The court had already heard the first prosecution witness was opened Mazhar Mahmood, investigative journalist, who has attracted a Mazhar Majeed agent in random activity. What came next was the second recorded conversation, which saw the drift of their business from potential opportunism innocent alleged corruption.
Mahmood Majeed for the first time gained the confidence to discuss the possibility of using Majeed is looking for customers in the Twenty20 event will be held in Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. But then, when the second meeting in Bombay Brasserie in London, the two went out, car Mahmood and it was there that the supplier dropped the cover story and has brought the subject confirmed, saying it is what his Far East, the Majeed bosses are really interested in is not afraid of the change in the subject at hand.
"Yes, there are a lot of money on this," he was heard to boast of saving the court. "(But) they did very, very difficult in many ways (to fix the time).
He added: "I did with them (the players who aspire to control of Pakistan) ... for years two and half years and have masses and masses of money."
He went on to describe how he deals with an illegal cartel Indians Paris, and to pay more for the information, adding that he and the players set "brackets" matches or short periods of time in a game. He told how they could fix the amount of points scored in a ten in the period.
"If we scored three off 13 overs, then the market expects a lot of points for both the sons of scoring, then slows down, and perhaps only a score of 14 or less for the next seven overs", Majeed has been heard tape.
He also told how the bowler Mohammad Asif would signal the beginning of a console by launching into the bowl and then stop short, so the judge will rule a dead ball. The case continues.
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