/ 24 September 2000

SA TO HAND OVER HANSIE’S BANK DETAILS

SOUTH Africa has offered to hand over bank details of disgraced former cricket skipper Hansie Cronje to Delhi police investigating a match-fixing scandal, say officials. Shamilla Batohi, the chief prosecutor in the King Commission probing the Cronje affair, has also agreed to send details of telephone calls made by Cronje to bookies in India and abroad, a top police Crime Branch detective said. The Indian police had previously failed to obtain the details despite three seperate requests made in the past five months to Interpol. Batohi has also agreed to send the banking details of restaurateur Hamed Cassim, who features both in the Cronje scandal and a domestic Indian probe into corruption charges against former skippers Mohammad Azharuddin and Kapil Dev, as well as Nikhil Chopra, Ajay Jadeja and some other cricketers.