Former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed jailed for 17 months in PSL bribery case

Manchester: Former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been handed a 17-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to bribe fellow cricketers in the Pakistan Super League (PSL).

Jamshed, who pleaded guilty to the charges last December, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison at Manchester Crown Court, reports ESPNcricinfo.

The 33-year-old was standing trial following his arrest in February 2017 alongside two UK nationals, Yousef Anwar, 36, and Mohammed Ijaz, 34. Anwar has been sentenced to 40 months in prison and Ijaz 30 months.

Both Anwar and Ijaz had also admitted to offering financial advantages to the PSL players with the intention of inducing them to perform improperly by failing to play competitively in good faith.

Jamshed had originally denied being involved in a plan focused on the PSL, but changed his plea during a court hearing then. Prosecutors had, in December 2019, told the court that as part of the British’s National Crime Agency investigation, an undercover police officer infiltrated the spot-fixing network, and secured an initial meeting with Anwar, by posing as a member of a corrupt betting syndicate. IANS

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