A UK-based club cricketer has been handed a 17-and-a-half year ban from all cricket after being found guilty of match-fixing by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Rizwan Javed was among eight players and officials - including Bangladesh international Nassir Hossain - charged by the ICC last September in relation to the attempts to fix matches in the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 league.
Javed did not respond to the charges, and Michael J Beloff, chair of the ICC Code of Conduct Committee, decided Javed was therefore admitting to committing the offences.
Javed was found guilty of trying to fix three different games, offering money to another player to fix a game, soliciting or persuading others to fix games, failing to disclose full details of any approaches or invitations to fix games, and failing to cooperate with an investigation.
ICC general manager integrity, Alex Marshall, said: "Rizwan Javed has received a lengthy ban from cricket for his repeated and serious attempts to corrupt professional cricketers.
"He has shown no remorse and no respect for the rules that are in place to protect our sport.
"The sanction imposed should send a strong message to other corrupters trying to target cricket at any level and demonstrates that any attempt to corrupt cricket will be strongly dealt with."
Hossain was given a two-year ban earlier this year after accepting three charges and cooperating with the investigation.
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