Cricket's latest Don pulls the match-fixing strings

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    This article analyses the influence of Dawood Ibrahim's D Company on the Indian and global illegal gambling markets. The article examines D Company's diversifcation into the illegal Indian bookmaking market and its culitivation of both Indian and international cricketers in match and spot fixing activities. The article shows how profits from D Comapny's bookmaking activities have been divserfied into property markets in the Gulf and financing Jihadist groups in the north of Pakistan.  Details from this research were republished in European and Asian media outlets.

    Period25 Jun 2014

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    Keywords

    • Cricket
    • Corruption
    • D Company
    • Dawood Ibrahim
    • South Asia