Cricket's governing body Thursday found former Sri Lanka fast bowler Dilhara Lokuhettige guilty of three charges relating to corruption during the inaugural T10 tournament in Sharjah.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lokuhettige was found guilty on all three counts after being formally charged in November 2019 before a three-member tribunal, the International Cricket Council said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
It said sanctions will follow against the player, who has already been suspended.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"The three-member tribunal concluded, by a majority, that the ICC had jurisdiction to bring the charges against Lokuhettige and was unanimous in deciding the merits of the case<\/strong>," the ICC said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n He was accused of being a "party to an effort to fix<\/strong>" or "influence improperly<\/strong>" an international game, and of "directly soliciting and inducing a player<\/strong>".<\/p>\r\n\r\n He has also been accused of failing to disclose approaches to take part in corruption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Lokuhettige, who played nine one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals for Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2013, featured in an Al Jazeera documentary, "Cricket's Match Fixers<\/strong>", in 2018.<\/p>\r\n\r\n In the documentary, he spoke to an undercover reporter about fixing a match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n In November, another Sri Lankan player, Nuwan Soysa, was also found guilty of three counts of corruption relating to the same T10 tournament.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Sri Lanka has faced mounting scrutiny in recent years over cricket corruption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The country's former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was banned from all cricket for two years in February 2019 after admitting to two breaches of the anti-corruption code.<\/p>\r\n\r\n A former sports minister, Harin Fernando, introduced tough anti-corruption laws in 2019 after saying that the ICC considered Sri Lanka the most corrupt cricket nation.<\/p>\r\n",
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