Bookie Mazhar, undercover NOTW reporter set up

October 14, 2011 13:16

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has claimed that the Pakistani tainted trio implicated in the spot-fixing case were trapped in a set-up hatched by cricket agent Mazhar Majeed and the now closed-down British tabloid, News of the World.

In February, British prosecutors had authorised charges of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments, and also conspiracy to cheat against the tainted Pakistani trio -- Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif- implicated in the spot-fixing scandal as well as alleged bookmaker Mazhar Majeed.

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