DUBAI: The ICC has confirmed receiving from Lalit Modi a letter that claimed that three top and regular IPL players received illegal payments from an Indian business house.
Lalit made the allegation in June 2013. The ICC has said it passed on the letter, as per procedure, to the ACSU, which in turn forwarded it to the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit. It was not clear whether the investigation had been completed.
Curiously, this letter was not revealed by Modi. Instead, this was a tweet sent to Modi by a user with the handle shyamswami158. This was also the first tweet from the account, posting an image of the letter and asking the question, “Whadya hav to say about this LalitKModi ? Wat was ICC response ..... This is shocking!!!!” Modi’s response to the tweet from shyamswami158 was: “Ask Icc Bcci Ipl why ask me. This is highly confidential. You should not be tweeting this”.
The ICC removed any doubts around the authenticity of the letter. “The ICC confirms that Mr Modi’s confidential e-mail, which was received in June 2013, and which has recently been published on Twitter, was provided to the ACSU at the time,” an ICC spokesperson told ESPNcricinfo.
“The ACSU handled that information in accordance with its standard operating procedures, which included sharing it with the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit.”