Lalit Modi names three CSK players who received bribes

Ex-IPL chief Lalit Modi; CSK players Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja

Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has alleged that two leading Indian players, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, and Dwayne Bravo of the West Indies, had received bribes from an Indian bookmaker. The bookmaker – Baba Diwan – happens to be a real estate tycoon, and he is alleged to have given the players flats in addition to the monetary benefits.

Raina, Jadeja and Bravo all play in the IPL for Chennai Super Kings – a franchise who are desperately trying to rid themselves of the taint of corruption and the conflict of interest issue related to former owner N Srinivasan.

London-based Modi tweeted a letter he claims to have written to International Cricket Council (ICC) CEO Dave Richardson in June 2013, passing on "some information that I have just got."

Huge money being bet on IPL matches: Modi

Modi also stated that the likes of BCCI, Anurag Thakur and India Cements are trying to deceive the public in matters related to betting. "Again these jokers in @BCCI @ICC @IPL #indiacements @ianuragthakur trying 2 hoodwink us all in regard to #illegal betting quantum," Modi tweeted.

Modi has also claimed that "9,000-10,000 crore per game" was the money being bet in the cash-rich Twenty20 league.

"I have been saying for years – wake up media fellows it's more like 9000-10,000 crores per game. Why do u think #monster is trying to stay #put on his #chair. That's where he gets his #raw #material to fund his #buying of #votes, #politicians, #players," he further tweeted.

Here is a copy of the recently surfaced letter which Modi had written to ICC CEO Dave Richardson, revealing these details:

Ask @Icc @Bcci @Ipl why ask me. This is highly confidential. You should not be tweeting this. https://t.co/azRX3C5Pwp

— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) June 26, 2015