{"id":2410,"date":"2024-05-22T22:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2024-05-22T22:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:48:55","slug":"2410-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/2410-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka T20 team owner arrested for graft allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The foreign owner of a T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Premier League (LPL) was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of corruption, police said, a day after a highly publicised player auction.<\/p>\n<p>Tamim Rahman, owner of Dambulla Thunders and a British national of Bangladesh origin, was stopped at the country&#8217;s main airport before he boarded a flight to Dubai, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested following a court order to detain him on suspicion of match fixing, police and immigration officials told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman was remanded in custody till May 31 pending further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>He was being investigated under two provisions of the sports act related to match fixing and attempting to organise betting.<\/p>\n<p>A special police unit dealing with corruption in sports carried out the arrest, the first involving an official of the LPL tournament since it began four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Those convicted under the sports act face potential heavy fines and jail sentences of up to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Rahman&#8217;s Dambulla team spent $450,000 to buy 24 players, including the most expensive foreign player, Afghanistan&#8217;s all rounder Karim Janat for $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>The five-team LPL tournament will start on July 1 with the final on July 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign owner of a T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Premier League (LPL) was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of corruption, police said, a day after a highly publicised player auction. Tamim Rahman, owner of Dambulla Thunders and a British national of Bangladesh origin, was stopped at the country&#8217;s main airport before he boarded a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}