COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will enact tougher laws and create a special police unit to deal with match-fixing following a TV documentary exposing global corruption in cricket, the sports minister said Thursday.
Faiszer Musthapha said existing laws were inadequate to deal with match-fixing and other forms of cheating exposed in the Al Jazeera documentary.The minister said the ICC had advised him to legislate against the practice after three Sri Lanka officials were filmed agreeing to sway matches.
“I am getting new laws drafted for this purpose and I am also proposing a special police unit to enforce the proposed legislation,” Musthapha told reporters here after returning home from talks with the ICC in Dubai.
Sri Lanka’s cricket board has already suspended three of its employees — two coaches and the curator of an international stadium — after they were caught in the undercover sting by Al Jazeera.
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