Corrupter involved in Shakib case banned by ICC

Deepok Agarwal the person behind Shakib’s ban from Cricket has been sentenced for two years by ICC. ICC anti coruption unit has banned him for breaking their breaching their rules

He is an indian businessman who will not be able to involve in any type of cricket around the world. This suspension will continue until 27 April 2022

The ICC expressed in media release that Agarwal had accepted the solitary charge framed by the anti-corruption unit for “obstructing or delaying” an investigation including “concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct” under the ACU code. ( source: espncricinfo)

ICC took charge on him because he has been the owner of sindhis in T10 League. After joining there, ACU sat with him 3 days later to investigate all the alleged approach. Though approach was not related to the T10 League and in that meeting, the ICC said Agarwal “surrendered” his mobile phone by “consent”.

Between December 22-25, 2018, the ACU marked Agarwal was “engaged” in WhatsApp conversations with an unnamed person and then the ICC has called that person Mr X, who was facing several allegations about some, the ACU was investigating.

The fact is that Agarwal had used Mr X to get access to people including players to corrupt them and get information from them and impress them to fix in the play.

” These WhatsApp conversations between Mr X and Mr Agarwal related to what Mr Agarwal had told the ACU in his interviews,” the ICC said. ICC said that their was a conversation between Mr X and Agarwal.

“In these conversations Mr Agarwal with effect instructed Mr X as to what to say to the ACU over certain matters to ensure that they both told the same story (a story which on occasions was not true) and consequently misled or obstructed the ACU’s investigation.

“Mr X also sought clarification from Mr Agarwal over the interview process and what Mr Agarwal had told the ACU on certain matters. In effect, Mr Agarwal and Mr X contrived together to mislead the ACU investigation and not to tell the truth in their answers.”

ICC also told that Mr X was told by Agarwal to delete all the messages they have exchanged and number during investigation.

“In other words, Mr Agarwal instructed Mr X to conceal and/or destroy information which might be relevant to the ACU’s investigations. Mr Agarwal also instructed Mr X to lie to the ACU about when he had last spoken to Mr Agarwal, as they had had conversations during a time where Mr Agarwal had explicitly been told by the ACU not to engage with Mr X

” ICC officially charged Agarwal on 22 December who accepted that charge in writing on April 27. The ICC said that although under the code Agarwal could have been charged for the maximum penalty of up to 5 years, it had taken into account some mitigating factors. These also included Agarwal “promptly” agreeing to the charge and importantly agreeing to “substantial assistance” he would provide to the ACU with its various other investigations. ”

” There were a number of examples of Mr Agarwal obstructing and delaying our investigations and it was not just a one off occurrence,” Alex Marshall, ICC’s general manager, integrity, said in the release. “However, he made a prompt admission of his breach of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code and continues to provide substantial assistance to the ACU in relation to several investigations involving other participants. This cooperation is reflected in his sanction.”

( The coded lines have been taken from ICC media release and espncricinfo)