No evidence against Indians in Ashes-fixing case: ACU chief

New Delhi, December 16

BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Neeraj Kumar on Saturday said that no evidence was found against the two named Indians in the alleged Ashes spot-fixing case.

Kumar's comments come in the backdrop of claims made by The Sun tabloid that two Indian bookies, Sobers Joban and Priyank Saxena, from Delhi, attempted to spot-fix the third Test at Perth.

Kumar said, “There has been no fixing, there are claims made against the two by The Sun reporters.” 

He added, “These two (Sobers Joban and Priyank Saxena) are on our radar and they are known to us for quite some time. They are persons of interest. But since no crime has been committed as yet so no legal action can be taken by either the English Police or the Australian Police or us.” Earlier, ICC anti-corruption general manager Alex Marshall had also said that no evidence has been discovered so far. — ANI