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Cronje, aged 32, and the two pilots were killed instantly. In August 2006, an inquest into the plane crash was opened by South Africa's High Court. [29] The inquest concluded that "the death of the deceased Wessel Johannes Cronje was brought about by an act or omission prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of pilots." [30]
After the match Aronstam visited Cronje, giving him two amounts of money (R30,000 and R20,000) together with a leather jacket. The promised R500,000 did not materialise. Before the one-day series, Cronje received repeated calls from "Sanjay" asking him to fix a match. Cronje gave him the names of Gibbs, Strydom and Boje to try to get rid of him.
South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was one of the sport's biggest stars until 2000, when he admitted to accepting bribes to fix matches. Involved in match-fixing since the mid-'90s, he ...
In 2000, the Delhi police intercepted a conversation between a blacklisted bookie and the South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje in which they learnt that Cronje accepted money to throw matches. [1] [2] The South African government refused to allow any of its players to face the Indian investigation unit. A court of inquiry was set up and ...
As a kingpin, Cronje exposed the dark side of betting, however with his untimely death in 2002 most of his sources also have escaped law enforcement agencies. Two South African cricketers, Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje , are also wanted by the Delhi police for their role in the match fixing saga.
Hansie Cronje South Africa: Life ban: Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers for providing information and for fixing matches. [7] 8: Herschelle Gibbs South Africa: 6 months: Initially agreed to under-perform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls. [8] 9: Henry Williams South Africa: 6 months
Jadeja was banned for 4 years. Although Cronje was a kingpin of betting, following untimely death in 2002 most of his fixing partners escaped law enforcement agencies. Earlier in 1998, Australian players Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined for revealing information about the 'weather' to a bookmaker.
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday ...