NAIROBI, July 29: The estranged wife of former Kenya captain Maurice Odumbe has implicated six other players in the corruption scandal involving her husband at an International Cricket Council tribunal on Thursday.
Katherine Maloney told the hearing that the group of six had received US$5,000 from Jagdish Sodha, the same Indian bookmaker who is alleged to have had links with Odumbe.
"Maurice said he had been approached by a middleman of a bookmaker to throw away a match. He had invited five or six members of the team because he could not do it alone," Maloney said in her testimony, recorded by the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit investigators.
Maloney, who was summoned as a witness to the case by presiding judge Ahmed Ebrahim said the players' relationship with Sodha had led to a breakdown in her two-year marriage.
"I was very unhappy about the relationship because Maurice has said Sodha was a gangster and I did not want any friendship with Sodha because I disapproved of this match-fixing business," said Maloney, who recounted one occasion in 2002 when Odumbe sent her to collect $10,000 from Sodha at his Nairobi hotel room. -AFP
