Police say they won't arrest South African cricketer Boje

Police say they won't arrest South African cricketer Boje

Post by Jay » Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00

CNN reports:

                Police say they won't arrest South African cricketer
Boje

                 Posted: Wednesday June 28, 2000
                 04:51 PM

                 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri
                 Lankan police said Wednesday
                 they have no plans to arrest South
                 African off-spinner Nicky Boje if
                 he arrives on a tour next week.

                 "We have heard nothing in this
                 regard," Deputy Inspector General
                 of Police, Bodhi Liyanage, told
                 The Associated Press.

                 Liyanage was commenting on a
                 report in The Island newspaper
                 last week that said Boje, who was
                 charged in India with match-fixing fraud, may be
                 arrested on arrival in Sri Lanka.

                 Since there are no charges pending in Sri Lanka against

                 Boje or any other South African cricketer, police will
                 not take any action.

                 Also, there is no extradition treaty between Sri Lanka
                 and neighboring India.

                 The South African team is arriving in Colombo on
                 Sunday to take part in a limited-over triangular series

                 involving Pakistan and host Sri Lanka. Then the South
                 Africans will play a three-test series against Sri
Lanka.

                 Boje is one of three South African players charged in
                 India, including former captain Hansie Cronje, who has
                 admitted taking more than $100,000 from Indian
                 bookmakers over the last four years.

                 Pieter Strijdom and Herschelle Gibbs are the other
South
                 African players charged in India. Gibbs has been
                 replaced by batsman Boeta Dippenaar.

                 The scandal that has rocked the cricketing world broke
                 after Indian police taped conversations Cronje had
                 during the India tour in February and March with a
                 gambler and a Johannesburg businessman, Hamid
                 Cassiem.