Lanka T10 League : Why were the owners of Lanka T10 League arrested

However, the tournament will not be affected due to this incident, while SLC has not yet spoken on the matter. Sri Lankan police told ESPNcricinfo that Indian citizen Prem Thakkar was arrested by the Sri Lanka Sports Police Unit under the Prevention of Sports-Related Offenses Act 2019.

He was arrested from a hotel in Kandy, where the Lanka T10 tournament is going on. It is believed that this is the complaint of a foreign player Prem Thakkar who was approached for fixing. Let us tell you that in the last few years, Sri Lanka has become a stronghold of match fixing. This is the reason why the ICC Anti Corruption Unit keeps a close watch on Sri Lanka.

This is the second major case of match fixing in Sri Lanka this year. This year, Dambulla Thunders co-owner Tamim Rahman was arrested in the Lanka Premier League. This was the first time in a fixing incident that the owner of a team was arrested.

Now Prem Thakkar has been caught by the police in the Lanka T10 League. The government here has also taken several strict steps to stop the fixing incident in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government had categorized match fixing as a crime in the year 2019. Sri Lanka became the first country in South Asia to do so. According to the law here, there is a provision of up to ten years of imprisonment with varying fines for crimes related to corruption in sports.