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The International Cricket Council on Thursday appointed former Central Bureau of Investigations Joint Director of Special Crimes, Ravi Sawani, as the General Manager and Chief Investigator of its Anti-Corruption Security Unit under Chairman Paul Condon.
Announcing the roping in of the 57-year-old Sawani, who has 30 years service in the Indian police force including with the CBI, ICC’s CEO Malcol Speed termed it as “a synergy of old world cricket (Condon of England) and the new world cricket (India)”.
Speed explained that Sawani’s credentials as Joint Director in charge of special crimes with the CBI enquiring into match-fixing in cricket was one of the reasons for appointing the former Joint Commissioner of Police in charge of Chennai’s Metropolitan Police to the post.
“Ravi Sawani was selected as he was an outstanding candidate from among several persons from police and military background who had applied for the job which we had advertised six months ago. India has clearly the biggest population playing cricket and we are well aware of the amount of money that is being betted on cricket in the country, to the tune of between 500 million US dollars and one billion during the ongoing India-Pakistan series,” Speed said.
Sawani, who replaces incumbent Jeff Rees who has been holding the post since ACSU’s inception in the wake of the match-fixing scandal in 2000 and is retiring, would be functioning from Dubai.
