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DELHI, Apr 28: World cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya Thursday denied
allegations he had been party to "dubious deals" over television
rights in the latest scandal to shake the sport, reports said, reports
AFP. The International
Cricket Council (ICC) president called a late-night press conference to
refute accusations that he had taken kickbacks related to telecast rights
for a 1998 ICC tournament in Bangladesh, the Press Trust of India
reported. The allegations
emerged earlier Thursday when a man claiming to be a former financial
expert at the Indian state-run broadcaster Doordashan said Dalmiya had
defrauded the station of four million dollars. Arun Aggarwal told
reporters at a press conference that Dalmiya had abused his powers as sole
negotiator for the ICC during talks with Doordashan about television
coverage rights for the Dhaka tournament. Dalmiya said the
allegations were "man-fixing and motivated" and threatened legal
action. "There cannot
be a bigger lie than that. It is nothing but a concerted villification
campaign against me," he told journalists in Calcutta. "It is a
villification against the ICC also. I will consult my solicitors and
discuss with ICC officials before taking a decision (about legal action). "I thought that
man-fixing is generally done by the underworld, but now it is being done
by the world above." Asked about Aggarwal,
Dalmiya said: "I have neither heard of Arun Aggarwal nor his report.
I am waiting to hear from Doordarshan who this Aggarwal is." The Indian ICC chief was speaking after a flight from New Delhi where he had attended an unprecedented meeting with top Indian players and officials to discuss the match-fixing allegations swirling through the sport. Bangla2000 News |