“Edward Walter Mupangano, a 27-year-old cricket fan from Harare who up to now additionally had taking part in trials with an area membership, acquired the sanction after he approached Luke Jongwe on 4 August 2022 and sought to introduce him to an Indian bookmaker who allegedly needed the participant to bowl in a pre-arranged method throughout a global match in return for a fee amounting to US$7000,” ZC stated in a press release.
“The facilitator himself would allegedly obtain US$3000 if the deliberate corrupt exercise was profitable.”
The board stated Mupangano had accepted the cost of violating the anti-corruption code and that he had been banned from all ZC-affiliated occasions, actions and venues for 5 years.
Within the wake of this incident, ZC known as for Zimbabwe to make “fixing and some other sporting corruption a legal offence” underneath the nation’s regulation.
“It’s our view that harsh sanctions, together with custodial sentences, will go a good distance in serving to cricket to curb one of many greatest threats to its credibility,” ZC chair Tavengwa Mukuhlani stated. “Criminalising match-fixing and spot-fixing will ship a powerful warning to offenders and would-be offenders that corruption has no place in cricket and those that have interaction in it ought to be jailed or put out of the sport.”
ZC stated it will “intensify its anti-corruption training drive inside its buildings and proceed working with the ICC to make sure that cricket domestically and globally just isn’t tainted”.
“The integrity of ZC and the sport itself is of paramount significance and, subsequently, the necessity to keep excessive ranges of honesty and professionalism in any respect ranges of the sport can’t be overemphasised,” ZC managing director Givemore Makoni stated. “Let me take this chance to put on document our due to Luke Jongwe for reporting the strategy – that is what is anticipated of all contributors in cricket if we’re to maintain our recreation clear.”
Jongwe, 28, has performed one Take a look at, 37 ODIs and 45 T20Is for Zimbabwe since making his debut in 2014.
