The Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy centres on allegations that members of Pakistan's Cricket team took bribes from a bookmaker, Mazhar Majeed, to deliberately under-perform at certain times in the 4th Test match at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in 2010.
Undercover reporters from News of the World, led by Mazher Mahmood, secretly video-taped Majeed accepting money and informing the reporters that fast bowlers Asif and Amir would deliberately bowlno-balls at specific points in an over. This information could be used by gamblers to place bets with inside information (a process known as spot-fixing). In response to these allegations, Scotland Yard arrested Majeed on the charge of match-fixing. The International Cricket Council (ICC) banned three players—Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir—for terms of between 5 and 10 years. In November 2011, Butt and Asif were found guilty by a London court on criminal charges relating to spot-fixing. Amir and Majeed had entered guilty pleas on the same charges. All four were given prison sentences, ranging from six months to 32 months.
Mazher Mammood.
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Mahmood sees himself above British law, using entrapment in many cases such as John Fashanu and of curse George Galloway, his flagship "case" relied solely on the testimony of a petty criminal and poor quality audio tapes, the case collapsed but in a later damages suit, the judicary took the side of Mahmood. As Gashi the witness was to be relied upon in not just one case but two previously as well, it was revealed that he had been convicted for crimes of fraud and deception in Europe which would have made him unreliable under British law.
Mohammed Asif at his wedding
Mohammed Amir..from hero to zero
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