Mehta had links with bookies worldwide
PTI, Ahmedabad
Mumbai-based bookie Shobhan Mehta had direct and indirect links with Indian cricket players like Mohammad Azharuddin, Nayan Mongia and Ajay Jadeja and foreign cricketers like Australian Mark Waugh and former South African captain Hansie Cronje, additional commissioner of police's crime branch DG Vanjara said here Saturday.The interrogation of Mehta revealed that his cricket betting network ran far and wide into cricket playing nations like Pakistan, England and Australia, he said. "The interrogation of Mehta, who was brought from Mumbai on a transfer warrant with regard to a cricket betting case and lodged here, has thrown up certain interesting facts," Vanjara told reporters. "He not only ran a cricket betting racket in the entire country but also had had links with an Australian bookie Mark Peter and an England bookie code-named 'Black 0365'," Vanjara said adding, "he was also associated with bookies in Pakistan."
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