Pak match-fixing: Majeed rearrested over money laundering charges

01 September,2010 12:42 PM IST |   |  Agencies

British Customs officers have arrested cricket match fixer Mazher Majeed again on charges of being involved in a money laundering racket.


British Customs officers have arrested cricket match fixer Mazher Majeed again on charges of being involved in a money laundering racket.

According to The Sun, Customs are now looking into his affairs before the scandal involving Pakistan's cricketers surfaced.
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Customs officers were waiting at Majeed's 1.8 million pound home in Croydon, South London, and arrested him, his wife Sheliza Manji, 35, and a business associate, 49. All three have been bailed.

"Customs are looking into large-scale money transfers possibly linked to organised crime," a senior source was quoted, as saying.
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Majeed became a co-owner of Croydon Athletic Football Club two years ago and has pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds into it. He also owns a firm called Bluesky Developments.

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