Sri Lanka’s T20 Premier League (LPL) vowed Thursday to go forward in July regardless of the arrest of a group’s British proprietor over alleged involvement in match-fixing.
The five-team cricket event was thrown into doubt after the arrest of Tamim Rahman, proprietor of the Dambulla Thunders, on Wednesday.
Rahman was stopped on the airport in Colombo earlier than he was in a position to board a flight to Dubai and remanded in custody by a court docket within the Sri Lankan capital till Might 31.
It got here a day after the group paid $450,000 to signal 24 gamers at public sale. Dambulla will probably be taken over by new homeowners, LPL rights holder IPG Group stated in a press release.
Rahman, who has in depth enterprise ties to Bangladesh, was beneath investigation for alleged offences associated to match-fixing and organised betting, police instructed the court docket.
“The Dambulla franchise, regardless of the current modifications, will take part beneath new possession,” IPG Group stated in a press release.
“We’re within the remaining levels of confirming the brand new possession, guaranteeing a seamless transition and uninterrupted participation of the group within the event.”
A particular police unit coping with corruption in sports activities carried out the arrest, the primary involving an official of the LPL because it started 4 years in the past.
These convicted beneath the sports activities act face fines of as much as 100 million rupees ($333,300) and jail sentences of as much as 10 years.