Saleem
Parvez S/o Ghulam Muhyuddin
(Recorded
on 24th October, 1998)
I went
to Sri Lanka when Pakistan was playing in the Singer Cup (in 1994). I stayed
for one month, for some days in the same hotel where the team was. Most
of the matches played by Pakistan and other teams are fixed. In this activity,
Salim Malik and Mushtaq Ahmed are the leaders and they at the appropriate
time involve other players also. Once I overheard Salim Malik and Mushtaq
talking about having a match fixed. I overheard them saying they have to
lose their match. This conversation took place in the hotel corridor. I
went to Sri Lanka at Mushtaq's insistence who said I should come to Sri
Lanka so as to see some matches and maybe something comes out of it. These
players have been indulging in match-fixing even before that but not in
my presence. Mushtaq and Salim Malik had received $100,000 from me on behalf
of someone for fixing the match in Sri Lanka. The amount was paid so that
Pakistan should lose the match, which they did lose. It was a match against
Australia. Intikhab Alam is also involved in this match-fixing. He has
remained manager of Pakistan and has put up two factories here. In my view
matches in South Africa and Zimbabwe were also fixed. So was the quarter-final
in Bangalore as I think that Ijaz Ahmed deliberately got out while playing
rash. I acted on behalf of my friends whose names I can't disclose for
security reasons. They are not book-makers but one of their friends is.
I carried $100,000 with me. I had taken this money to Sri Lanka as I knew
the team is going to sell the matches to Kerry Packer or to Bakhatar and
therefore, I thought that why I should not try. I handed over the dollars
to both of them who were together in their hotel room. The two players
had contacted me directly in this connection. They had asked for a larger
amount but I told them I have only $100,000.
