An associate of Shane Warne's is suing a woman who claims to have received lewd telephone calls and text messages from the banned Australian cricketer. South African Police have confirmed they are likely to brief their Director of Public Prosecutions about investigations into the scandal.
Gavin Varejes, an associate of the Australian Test spinner, made a charge of extortion against 45-year-old Helen Cohen Alon.
On 10 August she made claims about Warne in a South African newspaper.
They included the revelation that he "often told her he was lying next to his wife thinking naughty thoughts about me".
She also said she was offered money by a man - thought to be Varejes - to keep quiet about their relationship, the phone calls and the text messages.
Cohen Alon said the the phone messages continued long after she met Warne in South Africa in early 2002.
Suspension
Warne is serving a 12-month suspension from international cricket for failing a drugs test.
And in August he 2000 he lost the Australian vice-captaincy after admitting he made lewd telephone calls to a British nurse.
He is also at the centre of several other fresh controversies.
A married Melbourne woman - an exotic dancer - has threatened to reveal details of an alleged relationship with Warne.
And a former employee of Cricket Australia claimed the organization received regular complaints about his behaviour.
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