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| | Friday, 14 June, 2002, 11:45 GMT 12:45 UK Condon says heat still on Cronje died in a plane crash a fortnight ago
Investigations into Hansie Cronje's involvement in match-fixing by the International Cricket Council (ICC) ceased with the death of the former South African captain. But, says ICC Anti-Corruption Unit head Lord Condon, investigations are ongoing into criminals in South Africa and India who were involved with Cronje. "Tragic though Cronje's death was, part of his legacy was that a structure is now in place to help clean up cricket," said Condon.
The 32-year-old Cronje died in a plane crash in mountains near the South African city of George on 1 June. He was banned for life from the game by the United Cricket Board of South Africa in 2000 after admitting that he had not been honest over allegations of corruption made by Indian police. Indian officials said they had tape recordings of him talking with an Indian bookmaker during the team's tour of the subcontinent. Several teammates later told a government commission that Cronje conveyed to them an offer in 1996 of up to $350,000 (�180,000) to lose a one-day game against India. Cronje denied that, but admitted receiving $100,000 (�68,000) from gamblers in exchange for match information and conveying other offers from gamblers to teammates to perform badly.
"But our endeavours to rid cricket of corruption goes beyond that. "And our investigations will continue into anyone who has acted criminally in conjunction with Cronje." Condon was speaking at an induction conference for the five security managers appointed by the ICC to help stamp out corruption in the game. Each security manager has been assigned two Test-playing nations and they will attend all future series played there. | | See also:  11 Jun 02 | Cricket 05 Jun 02 | Cricket 04 Apr 02 | Cricket 15 Feb 02 | Corruption in Cricket Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Cricket stories now: Links to more Cricket stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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