'Spot-fixer' Amir released from jail after 3 months
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February 3, 2012, Friday
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PAKISTAN fast bowler Mohammad Amir was freed from a British jail on Wednesday after serving half of a six-month sentence for taking part in a spot-fixing scandal that shook the world of cricket last year.
The 19-year-old was released early from a young offenders' institution in Dorset, southern England, said a source who declined to be identified.
Amir was jailed in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and paceman Mohammad Asif were found guilty of taking part in the same spot-fixing plot and were jailed for 30 months and one year, respectively.
The trio was part of a conspiracy to bowl no-balls at pre-arranged times during a test match against England at Lord's in August 2010.
The Pakistanis were charged after an undercover reporter with a British newspaper recorded sports agent Mazhar Majeed boasting of how he could arrange for players to rig games for money. Majeed said he had been carrying out match-fixing for more than two years, had seven players from the Pakistan team working for him and had made "masses and masses of money".
The 19-year-old was released early from a young offenders' institution in Dorset, southern England, said a source who declined to be identified.
Amir was jailed in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and paceman Mohammad Asif were found guilty of taking part in the same spot-fixing plot and were jailed for 30 months and one year, respectively.
The trio was part of a conspiracy to bowl no-balls at pre-arranged times during a test match against England at Lord's in August 2010.
The Pakistanis were charged after an undercover reporter with a British newspaper recorded sports agent Mazhar Majeed boasting of how he could arrange for players to rig games for money. Majeed said he had been carrying out match-fixing for more than two years, had seven players from the Pakistan team working for him and had made "masses and masses of money".
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