David Rosenthal: belief

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…That’s a big one. Who’s going to get teams? Yeah. Pretty hard to say that didn’t happen. Awarding contracts to his friends, accepting kickbacks on the broadcast deals, and then the big ones, first secretly engineering for members of his family and close associates to have initial ownership stakes in three of the original eight IPL teams. Now, another BCCI board member, N Srinivasan, who (I think) by this time had become the chair of the board and was Lalit’s main nemesis on the BCCI board, directly owned the Chennai Super Kings through India Cements. Like hey, pot calling the kettle black here. And then the last two are big ones that he’s accused of, betting on the league and money laundering. I referred a minute ago, too, the underworld of India being involved here. Gambling in India is illegal. Writ large back then and still to this day it is illegal to gamble, full stop, in India. However, as you might expect, much like the movie Casablanca, you would be shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this institution. There is a lot of money gambled on cricket in India broadly and on IPL specifically after it gets going. In many cases through foreign bookmakers.…

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