London spot fixing trial,Salman Butt and Asif declaired Guilty
Focuss(Lndon) Former captain Butt and opening bowler Asif were convicted of conspiracy to cheat at London’s Southwark Crown Court, the Press Association reported. The jurors also found Butt guilty of conspiracy to accept corrupt payments but have not yet reached a verdict on whether Asif was guilty of the same charge. Butt now faces up to seven years in jail or a fine. The court heard how they plotted to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord’s test in August last year. The pair were charged after an undercover reporter recorded sports agent Mazhar Majeed, 36, boasting of how he could arrange for Pakistan players to rig games for money. Over three weeks of evidence, the jury heard that there are huge sums to be made by fixing cricket matches for gambling syndicates. The allegations emerged after Mazher Mahmood, a journalist with the now defunct News of the World newspaper , approached Majeed in August last year pretending to be a wealthy Indian businessman