‘Dawood took three hits at me, son got kidnaped in London’: Lalit Modi
by Vaishnavi Verma · KalingaTVAdvertisement
New Delhi: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi finally reveals why he took an exit from Indian cricket administration after a decade of his retirement while speaking to ANI.
Lalit Modi has left India since May 2010 and has finally spoken out on the subjects and the threats that he faced when he was serving for Indian cricket administration.
He spoke about the threat linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim and regarding the absence of any fixing-related controversies during his time in charge.
A episode has been uploaded on Youtube which is named as “Lalit Modi Unfiltered: Dawood, Tharoor, Rahul, Modi, IPL, Dhurandhar & Life in Exile.”
Speaking to ANI, Lalit Modi says, “He took three hits at me… Dawood himself said this… He missed three times… The reason was that I didn’t look the other way when they wanted to fix matches…
They offered me hundreds of millions of dollars to look the other way… If you look at the first three years, when I ran the IPL, there was no fixing… It wasn’t liked by the mafia. But the main reason is they believed that I would not be able to do IPL 2… Big bets were taken that IPL 2 will not happen…
Bombay police recorded everything… Bombay police put me on Z security… There was a shootout outside my house in Bombay. There was a hit for me in Johannesburg when I was in Cape Town, which was picked up by the South African government. There was a hit on me in Montenegro, which was picked up at the Croatian border. My son was kidnapped in London… I have not told this story to anybody. I get a call at 3.30 in the morning… Buy a man you see around all the IPL matches…
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He’s around politicians. He’s a London-based guy… He’s a fixer-dealer type of guy… He says you have to come and meet this guy Baba right now… I go to Baba’s penthouse with back-to-back paintings of Hussain. He told me he wants an IPL team… I told him I have a Dawood problem. He said let me fix it in a minute. It was all orchestrated by them. He goes on his terrace, takes out his satellite phone and calls Dawood on the phone. I pissed in my pants… This happened in 2012…
I don’t know where Dawood was when I spoke to him on the phone… It’s a recorded statement of mine… Then this Baba was seen everywhere. He’s a man of the world. I’m having dinner one day with Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan…
An India-Pakistan match was taking place at the World Series in Birmingham… He is a good friend of mine… That Baba happened to be there… Then they start calling me up every week, and say, ‘dosti is not forgiven. We need something back in return.’
That’s when I learned the story that the hits were being put on me because I moved IPL to South Africa… They had placed bets that it would not move to South Africa. So they lost a lot of money, apparently, and wanted me to make good that money… Dawood said (in an interview), we have resolved issues with Lalit Modi. I didn’t. I just said that I will retire from cricket. I gave my word…”
Watch the video here:
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