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PTI – 1 hour 28 minutes ago
PTI – 1 hour 28 minutes ago
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat believes making betting legal in the Indian sub-continent would help in monitoring the bookmakers and also "make the fight against corruption easier".
"If the industry was regulated you could actually work with them, monitor them better and everything would be legal so there is reason to go underground. So our view is if it was to be regulated it would make the fight against corruption much easier for us," Lorgat said.
Corruption in the game had come to light from time to time with the latest being the spot-fixing scandal which rocked international cricket last August in England, where three Pakistani cricketers were found guilty of being involved in the scam.
Lorgat said the ICC is now toying with the concept of ''mystery shopper'' to ensure that such an incident doesn''t occur again.
My take on this is that Tomorrow there would be demands for making Prostitution as a legal profession, so that sex related crimes would go down (a very specious argument, indeed). There are several other countries which have made it legal but the crime, there, hasn't come down, but in fact has gone up.
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