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Dalmiya raided Former ICC chief drawn into police TV rights probe
CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) -- Indian federal police searched the offices and homes of top cricket and television officials on Monday as part of investigations into telecast rights granted for international matches, officials said. Former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya's home in Calcutta was among those searched, a spokesman for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said. "Yes, raids are on," he said. More details would be available once the searches in several cities were completed later on Monday, he said. Dalmiya confirmed CBI officials had been to his house, but said he did not have the documents they were looking for. Dalmiya told reporters in Calcutta that he cooperated with the officials, who spent 1-1/2 hours looking for documents. "They went around the house. You can call it a search," Dalmiya said, adding the officials behaved in a "very, very nice" manner. A CBI report on cricket match-fixing released on November 1 said guarantee money received by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for some international tournaments was far less than it could have got. The report said guarantee money received by BCCI for three tournaments, including last year's World Cup in England, was too low compared with amounts host countries received for matches involving India. Dalmiya handed out to reporters a list of documents the federal police were looking for. These included papers related to correspondence between state-owned television channel Doordarshan and television rights marketing company Stracon regarding Wimbledon 1997 and the ICC Knockout Cup in Dhaka in 1998. Dalmiya said he didn't have any of the documents. "They wanted papers on Wimbledon," he said. "How do I have them?" He said he could arrange for documents related to the ICC, which he headed until recently, to be available but he did not have the documents at home. Dalmiya also distributed copies of a letter from the Enforcement Directorate, which investigates violations of India's foreign exchange laws, declaring him innocent after an investigation in 1997.
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