More Revelations: How our cricket match-fixing investigation started by News of the World

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THE INSIDE STORY BY MAZHER MAHMOOD: Why fixer Majeed borrowed a jacket

GREEDY Majeed was so keen to impress me, thinking I was a fellow crooked businessman, he invited me to meet his Pakistani stars at an Arab restaurant.

We arrived at 9.15pm and were introduced to players including Salman Butt and Wahab Riaz. I arranged for our silver Mercedes to pull up outside. Majeed had demanded 10,000 to show we were serious about buying match- fixing information and it needed to be handed over somewhere discreet.

Before we left the restaurant, Majeed realised he wouldn't be able to stuff all the money into his trouser pockets, so he borrowed a jacket from Wahab Riaz.

After I handed him the money he gave me precise details of no-balls that would be bowled at the Oval Test. These didn't take place but Majeed was not going to let his new client go. He said he would get captain Salman Butt to bat a maiden over, and invited me to his luxurious Croydon home to seal the deal. Butt would tap the middle of the pitch as a signal.

After leaving the house, my team watched the match but saw no signal from Butt. I called Majeed and asked why, once again, nothing had happened. He said Butt thought the bowling would make it difficult - but it became clear the real reason was that the players doubted we would come up with enough money.

In further calls over the weekend it was clear that far more cash was expected if we were to buy an entry ticket into the already crooked betting ring. Eventually, the amount was clear. 150,000 in total would have to be paid.
READ: How our cricket match-fixing investigation started

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SECRET: Majeed and our man meet in the car



THIRD MEETING, Al Shishawi Restaurant, London, August 19

Majeed, now entirely satisfied our undercover team are match-fixing clients who can be trusted, decides it's time to let them meet his players.

At dinner at the restaurant in the Edgware Road, our main man is introduced to Pakistan captain Salman Butt, young bowler Wahab Riaz and opening batsman Imran Farhat.

After our man shakes hands with Butt, he and Majeed leave the restaurant briefly for another secret meeting in a parked car.

Here, Majeed - who has borrowed a cream coloured jacket from Wahab Riaz - outlines exactly how the no- balls he has planned for Friday's play in the Oval Test will unfold. And money will change hands for the first time.

Majeed: All right, just to show you that it's real OK, I'm going to show you two no-balls tomorrow. Then you just pay, as I said, minimum for that, OK.

Reporter: What's that going to cost?

Majeed: Just 10,000.

Reporter: OK, fine, OK.

Then Majeed's greed kicked in.

Majeed: But for each no-ball.

Reporter: You said, come on, you said 10,000 for two yesterday - that's what you said to me.

Majeed: No I meant 10,000 for each, that's what's we do.

Reporter: OK. Well I've got 10,000 now, I'll give you 10,000 tomorrow then.

Majeed: OK, no problem bruv. I'll give you two no-balls tomorrow so then you know this.

Our man produces a leather briefcase, takes out the bundles of notes and hands it to Majeed. He puts it in the inside pocket of the borrowed jacket.

Majeed: I'm just going to give you, quite simple. And I'll tell you which bowler's going to do it, and which ball he's going to do it in.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: Which over and which ball.

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HANDOVER: Our man gives Majeed 10,000 to guarantee no-balls in Oval Test. He hides cash in jacket


Reporter: Right.

Majeed: So I'll let you know that tonight or tomorrow morning.

Reporter: You send me a text or what?

Majeed: I'll call you. But have you got a secure line?

Reporter: Yeah, this text, this number is fine, you just text me on there.

Majeed: OK, so I'll call you from another number, yeah. And I'll call you about 8.30 in the morning, is that ok?

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: And I'll give you the two balls that they're going to do it on.

As he had done at the previous Bombay Brasserie meet, Majeed outlines how it is the players, and not him, who are in control of much of what he did in terms of dealing with new 'clients'.

He says: "The players, they will only let me do it with a new source, because I am open with them completely, yeah, if you put money where your mouth is. You have to put a certain amount up front, yeah, to show.

"I've been doing this constantly and for the next month you're going to see how constant it is." He also spells out how we will have to pay.

Majeed: It has to be all cash, no transfers. The first payment is like a deposit. That's to show that, because anyone can say oh, I'll pay you this, this and this, yeah. These players don't know, they don't know who you are...

Reporter: Yeah, sure.

Majeed: So I'm going to say to them I've got a new party. I think he's good, yeah, we'll deal with him. OK? That doesn't mean anything to them, when I say to them, here take this, this is from the new party, they will... (At this point he holds up the bundle of cash).

The fixer tells our man that future payments for fixes "has to be made within 24 hours either in England or Dubai. These are the two places. In cash."

In the next section of our tapes, Majeed then goes on to tell us why he needs 150,000 from us - for our "trust" - and exactly what will happen to it. He also implicates captain Salman Butt as a cheat for the first time.

Majeed: Now then, the day after, if obviously it will go to plan tomorrow, then you meet me tomorrow night. I'll give you a bracket for the following day.

Reporter: OK, fine.

Majeed: If you want to do that, yeah?

Reporter: Let's do that.

Majeed: But in terms of deposit, its gonna be a minimum of 150,000.

Reporter: For the bracket?

Majeed: No, no, that's just for your trust. That's for me to pay my six boys, yeah, right, a certain amount each, OK, and to say that we're working with a new party.

After that I can give you everything we do, and every day we do, and every result we do and every bracket we do. And then I don't want any money up front, I just want the money paid after the things are done.

Reporter: So explain to me again, so tomorrow, let's see if this goes down (the two promised no-balls). If this goes down exactly as you say. I've got full faith in you - you've been doing it a long time.

Majeed: If this goes down... yeah. We've arranged long-term, believe me. These two no-balls, that's finished right, that's done. You are secure and happy.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: What I'm saying is a deposit of 150,000 in cash needs to be paid.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: I pay that to the players.

Reporter: Right.

Majeed: Then they give me the authority to work with you.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: Once the authority is there to work with you, I'll give you everything we do after that. And there will be brackets. There will be at least four, five brackets but there's no result. Because we're trying to win this game and we're trying to win the Lord's game. Because we want Salman Butt as captain.

Reporter: Sure, it makes sense. It's useful to have him there, isn't it? Very useful to have him there.

Majeed: He's my best friend.

Reporter: Is he on side as well, is he playing with you, is he in the fixing?

Majeed: Of course, of course.

Reporter: Fantastic. If Salman's at it, then it's OK.

Majeed: Mate, I'm telling you now, yeah, I'm telling you now... I have got the main players, and then the main brackets as well, in the main places. I've got the bowlers, the batsmen and the all-rounders and I've got two, two, two. And that's all you need."

Reporter: With that many players you can do a result easy.

Majeed: Results, every single result we've done has come off, every single one. Brackets, yeah, there is a slight risk factor. Obviously because cricket is cricket, yeah, but you will see that they're trying.

Maybe there's an edge or something when they're trying to block, yeah, it comes off and it goes for four. Or the bowler bowls four wides...

Back inside the restaurant, our man got chatting to well-educated captain Salman Butt, who heaped praise on his teammate Wahab Riaz and the rest of his squad.

Butt: He (Riaz) and I have been mates since we were schoolboys.

Reporter: Oh, really? Right.

Butt: We played for the same club, same team, same city, same department.

Reporter: Fantastic. He did very very well. I'd never heard of him.

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Majeed shows players inside of jacket


Majeed: You know he gives you everything.

Butt: As a captain you only need guys who you know will give everything, no matter if they are lesser players than a few great players, but a person who can give everything is the key guy.

Before our man left he posed for pictures with Majeed and the Pakistan players. After the meeting, Majeed showed off the inside of the cream jacket - where he had earlier stuffed the 10,000 we gave him - to the group of players outside the restaurant. Riaz was later spotted wearing the jacket.

PHONE CALLS, Majeed to our man, August 20


By Friday morning, Pakistan have moved into a strong position in the Third Test at the Oval. First call from Majeed at about 9.45am informs us the no-balls are OFF because the Pakistan bowling coach has read the riot act to bowlers over the amount of extras being given away.

Majeed: They don't want to do any no-balls today. No-balls, sorry.

Reporter: It'll happen tomorrow?

Majeed: Yeah but also if you meet me tonight yeah I'll even get you better proof (that he can deliver a fix).

There is no meeting - but in a further call Majeed reverts to a Plan B - for Salman Butt to deliberately not score any runs in the first over he faced in the next day's play - making it a maiden over.

Majeed: When Butt comes out to bat Yeah? The first over he faces?

Reporter: Yeah?

Majeed: Right, he'll play a maiden over.

To prove the set-up, the fixer then made a call to a man who he said was Butt on another mobile - set to speakerphone so our man could hear. He asked him if he could also bat a third over as a maiden over.

Majeed said to our man: "Did you hear what he said or not? He said speak to you in the morning. He goes the third over, but we don't know what the situation's gonna be, yeah. With how much the ball's spinning."

Determined to show he meant business, Majeed invited our team to a meeting at his 1.8 million house in Croydon, Surrey, the next day.

FIXER'S MANSION, Croydon, Surrey, August 21


Our man rolls up for the morning meeting at Majeed's impressive house behind electric gates in its own grounds.

Meanwhile England are on the ropes against Pakistan at the Oval, with one wicket remaining and Pakistan set to chase a low total to win the Third Test.

Reporter: OK. So what will Salman do?... The first full over that he faces?

Majeed: Maiden.

Majeed then outlines which SEVEN players he has in his fixing circle - naming Asif, Amir, Butt, wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal and three others. He says Butt is "a million per cent trustworthy".

Majeed takes a call from a number known to belong to Salman Butt.

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CONFIDENT: Majeed after the meeting


Majeed: Just the first full over you play, you just make sure you play a maiden, OK?

Man on Butt's phone: Theek Hai (OK).

Majeed: Right, and just do one thing though. Don't forget. After the second ball, just go and tap the middle of the pitch as a signal. Theek hai?

Man on Butt's phone: Theek Hai.

Majeed: OK, don't forget that, after the second ball, the signal. Boss good luck. I'll speak to you soon.

Majeed then tried but failed to phone Kamran as he told us: "We never really speak in the morning like I say." When our man asks if the message to Butt regarding the maiden was clear, Majeed tells us: "He's a very intelligent man."

In an incredible statement, he then added: "There's three boys who are very, very clever at this."

He then named Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif as being two of those "clever" players.

Like the no-balls, Butt's maiden over did not happen. And the reasons were spelled out in another phone call on August 21 at 11.35am between Majeed and our man.

Majeed: He didn't give a signal. That's why he didn't do it.

Reporter: What went wrong?

Majeed: He obviously felt the ball was doing too much off the pitch and he couldn't do a maiden.

By now Majeed was desperate to prove to our man that he could carry out a fix. But the stakes were to rise dramatically for the next Test at Lord's.

courtesy: News of the World
 

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Revelations continue by News of the World: How the whole sting operation started

THE INSIDE STORY: Reporter Mazher Mahmood tells how he got the tip-off


IT was back in January that I first received the phone call that would start my investigation.

A former member of the Pakistan cricket management team told me the England v Pakistan series would be rigged to ensure huge betting wins for crooked syndicates.

Indian bookmakers were effectively controlling games, telling a number of Pakistani stars what to do on the pitch. Once the paymasters knew what would happen in a game, they could rig the odds in their favour - and bet fortunes with other bookmakers who were not in the know.

The crucial extra piece of information I received in January was the name Mazhar Majeed, a millionaire businessman who acted as an agent for Pakistani players. I was told he was the fixer for the summer Test series in England.

We made a number of background checks on Majeed, but it wasn't until August 8 that the investigation moved into top gear and I arranged to meet him, posing as a multi-millionaire businessman interested in holding a cricket tournament in the Middle East.

FIRST MEETING WITH FIXER, Park Lane Hilton, London, August 16


After weeks of preparation, we finally come face to face with Mazhar Majeed - the Croydon-born businessman and Pakistan players agent - in the opening innings of an investigation that would rock the cricket world.

In the plush hotel's Podium restaurant, our team explain they are representing a business group interested in launching a new cricket tournament - and we need Majeed's help to bring in the stars.

The smooth fixer instantly pounces, boasting about his links to the Pakistan team - and hints at the power he holds over them, telling us: "I manage quite a lot of the players.

"I do all their affairs, all their contracts, all their sponsorship, all their marketing. Everything really."

He asks if we will put up a "million dollars" in prize money for the tournament and adds: "All the players would be up for that. Then not only will they come to play, they actually come to win."

One player he does not want involved is Shahid Afridi, the veteran Pakistan captain in charge of the side in the one-day series.

Afridi was not one of the players Majeed had in his pocket.

"I could have signed Afridi five years ago. All the other players I know, you know like brothers. When they're in England I see them every day. I go to Pakistan to stay with them. We are going out for dinner tonight actually, Edgware Road."

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THE FIXER: Players' agent Majeed during a car meeting at the Bombay Brasserie


"But he (Afridi) is the kind of player who you have to kiss his a**e every day if you want to manage him. And I am not that kind of person."

Our team are about to find out exactly the kind of person he is.

Our lead reporter in the probe, Mazher Mahmood, talks in passing of his connection to a syndicate in Singapore. He tells Majeed his players will be well paid for the tournament and asks him to have "a word" with them, mentioning the possibility of some betting involvement.

Majeed hints for the first time that several of his players are already involved in match-fixing

Majeed: They're cool, they're cool.

Reporter: If there's two or three that are on for the other side, the betting side, then good luck. They'll be really happy.

Majeed: There's more than two or three. Believe me. It's already set up. That's already there.

The hour-long meeting - recorded by our investigators - closes with an initially suspicious Majeed now at ease, and ready to bite. He arranges to hook up with our team again at a restaurant two days later...

SECOND MEETING, Bombay Brasserie, London, August 18


Over plates of curry at an 8pm dinner meeting, Majeed begins to open up about his deep involvement in match-fixing. First, to impress our team, he calls Pakistan captain Salman Butt - fresh from playing in the Oval Test that day - on his mobile to check possible dates for the proposed tournament.

He outlines how he believes our Twenty20 cricket tournament in the Middle East will work, while name- dropping Premier League footballers, Hollywood superstars and pop singers.

But it is not the tournament that interests him. At the end of the meal as they leave the restaurant, Majeed gets our main man on his own for a secret chat in the back of the reporter's car.

The workings of match-fixing, and the fact that his Pakistan players are already involved in it, spills out.

Majeed: OK, let's just speak openly.

Reporter: Yeah, OK. Part of the reason (for the tournament) is the guys behind it are interested in making money gambling... .

Majeed: I do feel that I can speak to you about this, so I am going to speak to you about it. OK. Now, erm, yes, there is very big money in it.

Reporter: I know there was but they clamped down on match-fixing, I heard... . Which is why we thought we'd do our own tournament.

Majeed: They've toned down match-fixing a lot, yeah. They've made it very, very difficult in many ways. But obviously, you know, these guys (his players), they would not deal with anybody. The only reason they will deal with me is because they know I'm professional... I've been doing it with them, the Pakistani team now, for about two and a half years.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: And we've made masses and masses amounts of money. I deal with an Indian party, yeah. They pay me for the information. So say, for example, just on to yesterday's game...

Reporter: Today's game? (The Third Test at the Oval was being played at the time).

Majeed: We do brackets for... you know what brackets are?

Reporter: No, explain to me.

Majeed: OK. Say, for example, a bracket would open in India, and it would open for, erm, 30 runs after ten overs, or 33 runs after ten overs. So what the players (crooked batsmen) would do is, for the first three overs, they would score a maximum of 13 or more runs in the first three overs.

Reporter: OK.

Majeed: So then the market then expects it to go high because they are scoring at a higher rate. Then the next SEVEN overs they would score 14 (in total, a much lower run rate) or less. So then the people who know the information (betting syndicates) would go low and make a hell of a lot of a killing.

Reporter: Right.

Majeed: Then there's a bowling bracket... say, for example, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir are bowling, yeah? Ten overs. The market opens at ten overs and, let's say 32 runs. OK. So at the sixth over when he (the bowler) does that dead ball (where a bowler starts his run-up and then aborts it) my people know the 8th, 9th and 10th over, they (the bowlers) are going to concede more than 18 runs...

Everyone's thinking 'No, they're not' because they're conceding only two or three runs an over - so the last three overs they let it all go and they make a killing.

Our man then raises the possibility of betting on when no-balls will happen - and Majeed talks of result- fixing, demanding up to a MILLION POUNDS to fix the outcome of a Test.

Reporter: Do we get information like there will be two no balls in the third over?

Majeed: Of course. You will get everything like that. Everything, and you get the indication to show that if it's on or not. They'll change gloves at a certain point.

Reporter: How's this relayed, how is it going to work?

Majeed: Easy. It all comes through me. I do it all. We don't do results that often. We do results now and again. The last one we did was against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup which was about two months ago. And you get a script as well.

Reporter: What does that mean, a script?

Majeed: In other words, this bowler is going to concede this many runs or more. This batsman's going to do this.

Reporter: Right, so he'll be out before 20?

Majeed: Exactly...

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AGENT: Dining at the Bombay Brasserie


Reporter: How many players have you got (involved)?

Majeed: I've got six. (He later told us it was seven).

Reporter: In the Pakistan team currently?

Majeed: First-team players.

Majeed said there were betting brackets set up in India for the Oval Test Third Day - Friday, August 20 - then he outlined his prices ranging from Test and one-day internationals-fixing down to no-balls.

Majeed: We charge anything between 50 and 80,000 pounds per bracket. And for results, Twenty20 is about 400,000.

Reporter: Right.

Majeed: A Test Match, depending on the situation, can go up to a million pounds.

Reporter: Come on. How do you recover that, a million?

Majeed then talks of a fix he'd already worked in a Test match.

Majeed: Let me tell you the last Test we did. It was the Second Test against Australia in Sydney. Pakistan, on the last day... Australia had two more wickets left.

They had a lead of ten runs, yeah, and Pakistan had all their wickets remaining.

Reporter: Right.

Majeed: The odds for Pakistan to lose that match were I think 40-1. We let them get up to 150 in the morning, and then everyone lost their wickets.

Reporter: Right. OK, in that case you make good money.

Majeed: That one we made 1.3 million (dollars).

Reporter: OK, but that's a rare event.

Majeed: No, no, no, with Tests, with Tests is where the biggest money is because those situations arise. That's where the money is.

But we now are not going to do any results for the next two games (against England) because we want Salman Butt to be captain for long term.

Reporter: Right. But a few no-balls doesn't make any difference, does it?

Majeed: Oh no-balls is easy. You can't make that much money anyway. If you wanted no-balls you could probably get up to 10,000 each. But in terms of results, one-day matches results are about 450,000.

Depending on the game, on who we are playing. Sometimes it can be 300,000. The max it can be is 450, that's the max. But you can speak to any bookie in India and they will tell you about this information and how much they'll pay (to manipulate their odds because they know the outcome). You can make millions.

Reporter: Well, let's do it.

Majeed: You can make absolutely millions, millions. But I know for example now, yeah, we're doing two results coming up soon, within a month. Yeah.

Majeed advised our man against betting online because it was too regulated and explained the millions of pounds placed with Indian bookies is "unbelievable". Then he told us how he would give us the information on two no-balls to be bowled at the Oval for the sum of 10,000.

Majeed: I will tell you on Friday what the no-ball is going to be. I'll give you two if you want.

Reporter: We'll pay the ten grand, no problem.

Majeed: And then once you paid that then I know that it's real, yeah.

Reporter: OK, so on Thursday night then let's meet.

The fixer then boasted that the players in his pocket would keep their mouths shut - because THEY were the ones who had the idea of fixing matches in the first place.

Majeed: They were the ones who actually approached me about this. This is the beauty of it.

I was friends with them for four, five years and then they said this happens. I said really? And I was so innocent to it. So really this happens? Bloody hell!"

Our man then gave Majeed a lift to the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, where the players had been staying - players he would meet at the next rendezvous in The Fix.

courtesy: News of the World
 

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TODAY we reveal a trail of texts that could help police nail Majeed and the players under his control.


The clues are in messages from Majeed's mobile - under investigation by police.

One text from Majeed's brother Azhar on March 25 reads: "Let's get f*****g hold of cricket and squeeze everything we can from it."

In reply to the March 25 text, Majeed replied: "Exactly the attitude I wanted from you yesterday."

A blizzard of messages sent to numbers around the world - including America, India, Italy, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates - could hold the key to unravelling the scandal.

A source close to the investigation told us: "Messages have been sent and received from a vast range of contacts. We are working quickly to establish whether codes were used in these text messages, who they were sent to and where they were sent."

Majeed's texts provide a fascinating insight into his shady world.

On May 10 - the day Pakistan played Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 match - Majeed sent messages to four unidentified numbers in America, the United Arab Emirates and two from Britain.

In a possible reference to nobbling particular deliveries, he texted: "Ok how about other thing. One in the 7th over and one in the 8th"

Six minutes later, he sent another, saying: "This will only work if u score in the first 2 overs and no wickets. Also even if we bat second innings it is same."

Shortly afterwards he asked: "Bro also confirm the other thing in the 7th and 8th over. 1 fall in each."

There is no record that he received text replies to these messages.

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CLOSE: Fixer Majeed, front right, next to Butt at dinner with players


During our sensational investigation, Majeed explained how he changed his mobile phone and SIM card every fortnight in an effort to cover his tracks.

Majeed told our man: "We change our phones, and the thing is... you've got to get rid of the sim and the phone separately."

In the days before the start of Pakistan's Test series against England, Majeed allegedly ran up a four-figure phone bill. Cops are diligently going through those calls.

Meanwhile, we have uncovered new photographs showing the friendship between crooked Majeed and the Pakistan squad. Our exclusive snaps were taken at an Indian restaurant in Perth, Australia, on January 30 - a day after Pakistan were beaten by 135 runs by the Aussies in a one-day international.

The tour was a disaster for Pakistan. As well as being white-washed 5-0 in the one day games, they lost the Test Series 3-0. The controversial second test defeat led to close scrutiny of wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal - nicknamed Kami - who dropped a series of catches.

A match-fixing probe into him was launched on February 26. A day later Majeed was texted from a British number. The message read: "Kamran akmal has been accused of match fixing."

A month later - on March 5 - another text to Majeed read: "Salam bro pls be careful if you are dealing with any financial matter with kami I am sure you are aware he and one other player is very much into match fixing alegations... "

courtesy: News of the World
 

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Proof it wasn't 'set up'




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HASAN: 'Do you have answers?'





By Philip Whiteside, 05/09/2010
TODAY the News of the World can shatter the ludicrous claims of Pakistan's High Commissioner Wajid Hasan that his country's cheating cricketers were victims of a "set up".


Outrageously, he alleged this week that we had filmed our damning video evidence AFTER the three no-balls had been bowled at Lord's.

He told the BBC: "We are not seeing on the video what the date or time is.

"Do you have answers to these questions? It could have been dated before the match or after the match, or at a different time."

No chance, Mr Hasan. We have cast-iron proof with timed evidence from e-mails, text messages, phone records, videos and receipts.

We have dated receipts showing our reporters picked up 140,000 from a London travel agents and took a hired car to the London hotel where our undercover Investigations Editor Mazher Mahmood met match fixer Mazhar Majeed to hand over the cash.

Police possess CCTV footage from the hotel showing Mahmood and Majeed arriving separately for the meeting on August 25.

At 9.53pm, Majeed texted Mahmood asking: "Boss can we meet at 10.30 pls". Five minutes later he sent another asking: "Which hotel?"

We videoed the handover and later Mahmood e-mailed our Editor Colin Myler, company lawyer Tom Crone and the news editor to brief them on what had happened.

His e-mail is timed at 01:24 on August 26 - nine- and-a-half hours BEFORE the Lord's Test was due to begin.

Yesterday Pakistani cricket legend turned politician Imran Khan also rubbished Hasan's absurd claims.

He said: "The accusations of cheating are so vast that it damages the players' careers, the team and its future.

"Newspapers have to do their homework. They know what the consequences are.

"If false evidence was given then the News of the World knows the impact it would have on them."
 

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Shamed match-fix trio built fortunes

THE three shamed players have built an affluent life for themselves - now threatened by the prospect of life bans and even prosecution.

Tarnished cricket golden boy Salman Butt, 25, was born into money and educated at the exclusive Beaconhouse school in Lahore.


He is believed to own three houses there and is said to be building a new two-storey-villa in the city worth 300,000.


He married Gul Hassan in February 2006 and the couple have a 19-month-old son.


Mohammad Asif has long enjoyed the trappings of wealth that his - until now - successful career in cricket has brought him.


Asif, 28, is believed to own four properties including a 650,000 villa in Lahore. Another is understood to be in Karachi and a third in his native town of Shikhupura.


He dated Pakistan film star Veena Malik but that relationship ended badly and he married close-friend Sana Hilal in March.


This week furious Malik, 32, claimed that Asif had admitted to her his involvement in match-fixing.



Amir, 18, was, until our revelations, the pin-up boy of world cricket. Born in a remote village in the Punjab, he is the youngest of seven. One brother earns just 7-a-day working in a local shop.


Following a meteoric rise into the national side, he has recently bought a property in Lahore.

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