MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has revealed that it has ended its 11-year association with the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) starting for the Indian Premier League (IPL) competition starting from this season, The Indian Express reports.
The rationale given by the CoA head Vinod Rai is an increase in hiring costs for the board, which had paid as much as Rs 31 million for the ICC ACU’s services in the IPL 2018. This worked out to $500 per day (Rs 35600) for each officer that the ICC paid for, besides appointing Indian officers as assistant anti-corruption managers, who earned 5 times lesser the amount.
The BCCI is keen on utilising their own ACU officers and gain more autonomy for hiring more people in the unit, who have been trained since the last two years and have had the experience in rooting out corruption in domestic cricket.
“We have decided to discontinue ICC ACSU wing from this season onwards. We have been hiring ICC’s ACSU services for the past ten years now,” Rai was quoted as saying to the newspaper.
“There was no logic, because we are paying 10 per cent (to India ACU officer) of what we are paying to them (ICC ACSU).
“Why should we not hire our own people, why should we hire other people?”
