NEW DELHI, MAY 24: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) finally got Manoj Prabhakar to say what he had to on match-fixing in cricket, CBI sources said.Prabhakar, who had made serious allegations about match-fixing in 1997, arrived at the CBI headquarters late in the afternoon and recorded his statement with the officials of Special Crime Branch of the investigating agency, they said.Prabhakar made his submissions for about 90 minutes before two officials of the CBI about his charge that he had been offered bribe to play below his potential.Former Cricket Board Chief Inderjit Singh Bindra had recently quoted him as having said that Kapil Dev had offered him the bribe, which was strongly denied by the former Indian captain.Prabhakar did not hand over any documents to the agency, the sources added. They said the former all-rounder could be again summoned to the agency headquarters if need arose.When contacted, Prabhakar, who is the third cricket-related person to have appeared before the CBI, refused to say anything to the media.The CBI has so far examined seven persons, including Bindra and Sunil Dev, the Delhi District Cricket Association's Sports secretary and manager of Indian Cricket team during its series in South Africa in 1997. The sources, however, refused to name other four persons, stating that it could hamper the course of investigations into the case.CBI has also prepared a list of persons to be questioned and may send teams to different places in the country and abroad. The CBI has also prepared a list of suspects in the match-fixing scandal who would be questioned. They also hinted that help of some foreign investigating agencies would be sought wherever the need arose.CBI is likely to procure the tapes, which allegedly contain conversation about match fixing, from Mumbai police and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), they said.The Crime Branch of Mumbai police and DRI stumbled upon conversation about fixing of a match in 1995 while solving a case of kidnapping of a businessman in the metropolis.A team under Joint Director R N Shawney has been formed to probe the allegations.
