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Abu Salem admits links with cricketer: CBI New Delhi, November 20 The sources said the gangster had confirmed that he knew the Indian cricketer. Salem initially denied his links with him about match-fixing but when confronted with a taped conversation with the player, Salem acknowledged it without elaborating further. This case may throw further light on links of the underworld with cricketers, especially in the light of a probe carried out by the CBI in 1999. The agency had been directed by the then government to probe into the match-fixing allegations and submit a report, which was done. The CBI and other security agencies were already probing the cricketer for funding the expenses of the underworld don in Portugal. The sources said the don had parked his money with a cricketer and a Bollywood actress who, in turn, used to send the money to him for his expenses in the country. Salem is expected to throw more light on the links of cricketer-bookie-underworld during the remand period, which ends on November 23. The sources said the bank transactions of Salem were monitored closely and names of the former cricketer and the actress, who had been allegedly laundering money for Salem and taking care of his expenses in Portugal came to light. Security agencies, seeking to unravel the funding mystery, traced some financial transactions to the former Indian cricketer and the actress, said the sources. Help of some more foreign countries could be sought to trace the money trail completely, they added. A visibly cool person during questioning, Salem had been “cooperating” with the CBI during his nine days of remand but had not given anything about global terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the CBI sources said.Salem was claiming that he had met Dawood only once in his life but the CBI sources said this was a diversionary tactic being adopted by the gangster to avoid being grilled on Dawood or his operations. About his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Salem is understood to have agreed that he had delivered some arms and ammunition. Bhopal: A local court has issued a permanent warrant against underworld don Abu Salem’s first wife Sameera Jumani in a fake passport case here, the police said today. Following an application for renewal of an earlier warrant, the court yesterday issued a permanent warrant against Sameera, a co-accused in the fake passport case with four others, including Salem and his girlfriend Monica Bedi, who were extradited from Portugal on November 11, the police said here. Sameera, who had allegedly procured a forged passport from the city in 2001, was believed to be in the USA, it added. Meanwhile, Abu Salem has told the CBI that he married to Monica Bedi in Los Angeles in 2000. Briefing reporters here, CBI officials said Salem was questioned on Bedi’s statement before a Hyderabad court yesterday. Bedi had said she was single and not married to anyone.
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