The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made part payments of the outstanding dues to six suspect players namely Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamir, Mohammad Asif, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik and Danish Kaneria, Dawn learnt on Monday.
Well-placed sources said that both Salman and Aamir received payments of Rs2.44 million each from their total outstanding dues of the last couple of series which come to approximately eight million Pakistani rupees.
The PCB has also deducted Rs2.5m from their dues to make a payment to English lawyer Elizabeth Robertson who was hired to defend the tainted trio soon after the Scotland Yard detectives raided the team hotel in England following the spot-fixing scam.
The PCB is, however, yet to pay around Rs3 million each to Aamir, Asif and Salman, the sources said, which may not be cleared until the ICC’s decision on the spot-fixing case is finalised.
All the three players are going to Doha, Qatar on Tuesday to defend their position before an ICC anti-corruption tribunal which will be holding a hearing into the spot-fixing case from Jan 6 to 11.
Meanwhile, Kamran and Shoaib, who are currently in the process of defending themselves before the PCB’s integrity committee over some fixing allegations, also received a major share of their outstanding dues which, however, does not include payments for the last series against England.
