CRIMINALISING MATCH-FIXING

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• Sri Lanka’s Parliament passed The Prevention of Offences Related to Sports Bill that entails a prison term of up to 10 years for corruption in sports, as well as hefty fines up to 100 million Sri Lankan rupees.
  
  
• Under it, “any person related to a sport” who is directly involved in fixing, as well as those who “provide inside information”, curators who prepare pitches to suit betting operators, and match officials who “deliberately misapply the rules” for money, will be punished.
  
  
• For the past two years, Sri Lankan Cricket has been embroiled in several instances of corruption and match-fixing. The cricket board has been under the scanner of Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of International Cricket Council (ICC) since 2017.